C-punx I really didn't mean to send that last message to the list. I had stiffened my resolve not to rise to the obvious troll bait, but a minor seizure of some sort resulted in the send command being issued instead of the cancel command. . . By way of making up for it I thought that some of you might be interested in knowing that AAAS is having it's annual meeting in Baltimore this year and of interest to those pondering alternative means to bruting cryptosystems are the sessions below: DNA Computing, Friday Feb. 9, 8:30 - 11:30 am Organized by Richard Lipton, Princeton University Quantum Computation, Friday Feb. 9, 2:30 - 5:30 pm Organized by Seth Lloyd, MIT C. J. Leonard ( / "DNA is groovy" \ / - Watson & Crick <cjl@welchlink.welch.jhu.edu> / \ <-- major groove ( \ Finger for public key \ ) Strong-arm for secret key / <-- minor groove Thumb-screws for pass-phrase / )