>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.