> > Where on earth did this number come from?
> It is obviously incorrect, since a 384-bit PGP key has already been
> broken.
Well, it's correct if using a sufficiently large public key, or encrypted
only using only a private key (pgp -c [assuming of course you have a
sufficiently difficult passphrase, MD5 really is an adequite one way hash,
IDEA doesn't have any exploitable weaknesses, you're on a "secure"
computer, and no one is interested enough to do rubber hose passphrase
recovery]).
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