On Thursday, September 25, 1997 11:34 AM, Tim May [SMTP:tcmay@got.net] wrote:

Though we as technical people are usually cautious to say that "unbreakable" is a dangerous word, the fact is that it's our current best description of what a 2000-bit RSA key is, and that's all there is to it.

I don't dispute you -- in the slightest -- that a brute force attack against a 2000-bit RSA key is functionally impossible today. However, I don't think that a brute force attack is the most likely for a functional law enforcement (or national security) crypto lab. Unless you think that today's algorithms and conventional random number generators are perfect ... Aaron