Mike Beede wrote the following: > SSH on OS X offers 256-bit AES. I found that in around two minutes. > Thanks for playing. Oops, Sorry...I stand corrected, my apologies... It does make it considerably harder to crack with 256 but my point is still valid that the powers that be can still (if they really want to and spend enough time) decode anything the private individual can encode. They will never release an encoding system to the public that they are not capable of taking apart... Thanks for keeping me on the straight and narrow... Cheers, Richard --