>A. It seems that anyone "civilian" encryption algorithm is a
>2-hours walk to a military scramble specialist. That's what NSA
>Seniors say, at least. Perhaps Mr. "Lefty" could add any wisdom
>over the issue :-).
Happy to, Aldo. Simply put, this assertion is nonsense. A "military
grade" key (e.g. 1024 bits in length) can be used with current
implementations of PGP today by _anyone_ who's willing to take the time to
encrypt and decrypt with such a lengthy key. Best estimates of actual
cryptologists for brute-force cracking of messages encrypted with such a
key are measured in millenia. See any modern cryptology text for details.
Once again, I'd suggest you actually learn something about this subject.