-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- If I were going to create a hole in PGP, I would create a "bug" in PGP's key generation process which would limit the primes PGP chooses to a relatively small subset. Then when I wanted to break, I would factor by searching this small subset. I could also try to put a bug in the code that chooses a Random Idea key, making it choose from a small subset, that again could be searched. To put a bug in the idea portion of PGP would be difficult because people can check if PGP can intemperate with other implementations of IDEA. - -- Paul Elliott Telephone: 1-713-781-4543 Paul.Elliott@hrnowl.lonestar.org Address: 3987 South Gessner #224 Houston Texas 77063 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6 iQCVAgUBMB8adfBUQYbUhJh5AQEx3QP9Har9kb9731F/Nzl0p9kMDEhN6YaSmU4D HZ+Xhcwq8fA1EBZOzszmjG5gI2JZvciaQpA6vV+ZraKCoJljXB0Ud0AuRwJnxbSq K4gvmev2Hgi3soE1HWsF/ODmiO4be+haxfDrTYDNjVDP56XL1LH2Lxysx1cqrVqt DRZ4l0480PE= =eLP9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----