-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- I was just wondering.... If the NSA could get it's hands on half (40) of any particular clipper key, wouldn't that just leave 2^40 to compute? Even with brute force, it's trivial even next to DES. Brian Williams Extropian Cypherpatriot "Cryptocosmology: Sufficently advanced comunication is indistinguishable from noise." --Steve Witham "Have you ever had your phones tapped by the government? YOU WILL and the company that'll bring it to you.... AT&T" --James Speth -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.3a iQCVAgUBLZmvbtCcBnAsu2t1AQE5MwP9E46rrqaqqDRASdd5EHuRgkvGmax3y/3n RQ7xIRT+ixXBfKMnSDdcScdV9OqR6JcQJFru88zynqj4XaU6u1olYKPKJhjpO1ry nE8vHi4UO8qkg4B3cnf2XZVlkwrICTzGGhZjHuqws0R3C++1AGmVBA/UrlHQxwZn h9jU4GRUHQI= =xVfX -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----