Thanks for explaining that. My point about people suspecting 128 bit encryption being cracked was misleading. Using the term cracked connotes that the government had a mathematically fast way to get decryption without the private key. In that case, the larger the key size would matter.

However, as one security expert says, there are more than one way to crack an encryption system. In this case, the government lucked out, and some bad code allowed it to appear they mathematically cracked the encryption, with quantuum computing or whatever. Where in actuality, they were sneaky key-thiefs.

While listening to a panel discussion on security on the radio, a panel which included the man wrote wrote PgP, Phil himself; someone asked if the current versions of public key encryption was mathematically sound. They all said yes, but when asked if any of them had been approached by the government for assistence in hacking their programs, they declined to answer. That silence tells alot.