Politics for the really cool.

Discusses the usefulness of cryptography, the science of scrambling messages so they cannot be read by prying eyes, as of September 1997. The sale of cryptographic products made in an undisclosed foreign country through Anguillan subsidiary by Sameer Parekh; The book `The Twilight of Sovereignty,' by Walter Wriston; When modern cryptography was born; Comments from cryptographers. INSETS: `Exports jobs, not crypto'.;The siege on the greenback.;Going offshore on the Internet..