ugh wrote:

> 128k SSL is crackable, with considerable time and effort.

Please... get your information about cryptanalysis from some source
other than random clueless rubes posting to some Yayhoo forum and/or
learn to read for comprehension.

First of all it's "bits", not "k".

Second of all, if you combined the computing power of every digital
device on the face of the planet and directed that effort toward
cracking a single 128 bit SSL session it would take you significantly
longer than the Earth has existed to crack it, and generate enough heat
to vaporize this corner of the Galaxy in the process.

The mathematics behind that is undeniable. Modern strong encryption is
virtually uncrackable. Period. If any weaknesses exist they're going to
be in the implementation, not the crypto itself.