An article posted on sci.crypt stated that quantum factoring is real and that an article was posted in this month's Science magazine. The author of the post says this would make factoring a 10 bit number the same time as factoring a 100000000 bit number. A wonder how long it is before every major government in the world has one of these. Makes RSA's future kind of moot doesn't it?? I definitely have to read this article, but I thought I'd post it here for those that weren't aware or that hadn't heard. I wonder how long it will take before they can figure out how to do this for other computationally intensinve problems like N-th roots. (To make Diffie Hellman moot as well). It's beginning to seem that mathematically challenging algorithms aren't going to be that challenging for long. I have no details other than what is posted here. Perhaps somebody could post a better synopsis than what was in sci.crypt? (I plan on reading it for myself anyway, which I imagine most other people here will be doing as soon as they can) Doug Hughes Engineering Network Services doug@eng.auburn.edu Auburn University