Is that the neighbor, the employer, the insurance company, ISP, Microsoft, her husband, or the government ? All entities on this list except one can be effectively neutralized with single-DES and free Anonymizer.com access. The government is the only one that can do decent multi-network tracing and break some ciphers.

The only entities that might be neutralized by single-DES are her husband and her neighbor, but that's not a sure thing. The EFF DES Cracker was built for less than $250,000 in 1993, which is just pocket change for large corporations (like GM) and well within budget for medium-sized corporations (like Thomson Consumer Electronics, where I work). There are several individuals on this list who could afford to build a single-DES cracker themselves, although they might have to take a hit on their affordability of their current lifestyle. You need to catch up on your reading as to what capabilities small organizations and private individuals now have in terms of breaking computer-based security. =============================================== Mark Leighton Fisher fisherm@tce.com Thomson Consumer Electronics Indianapolis IN "Display some adaptability." -- Doug Shaftoe, _Cryptonomicon_