According to David Remahl: >It is believed that a 1K RSA key will keep even the super computers >out for at least a few decades, given that the encryption method >itself isn't broken (or someone knows a backdoor). Usually the >password or passphrase is the weak link. > >/ Rgds, David Think clusters, add in billions of computations a second, [even on a Mac]... toss in 'farms' of big 'clusters', and remind yourself that the 'decades' thing was accurate...back around PGP 3 days. ~flipper