1.   Among these are Pretty Good Privacy, an encryption program and www.anonymizer.com, a Web site that allows you to surf the Net without a trail.

2.   An encryption program generates keys used to encode and decode messages.

3.   Any worthwhile encryption program encrypts the key before storing it, making it useless if found.

4.   Ask Philip Zimmermann, creator of a popular encryption program called Pretty Good Privacy, or PGP.

5.   Bernstein developed an encryption program he called Snuffle and wanted to publish it for review.

6.   A high-quality encryption program can scramble a document so thoroughly that it would take a high-speed computer millions of years to crack the code.

7.   A number of commercial encryption programs exist, but the PGP encryption program is free and has an excellent reputation for file security.

8.   Burns, Leahy, and Goodlatte all have bills to ease restrictions on the use of encryption programs.

9.   But that would make American export encryption programs unsellable abroad.

10.   Encryption programs can make it almost impossible for others to read files.