> RSA algorithms are being > broken with efforts such as www.distributed.net Consider that it still took distributed.net 250 days to break a 56-bit key... > Does expiration of RSA copyright have any impact on ease of > cracking RSA key size? No. > Why do we even have RSA encryption in > first place? Is RSA essential to netrek and future vanilla > releases? If so, why? To verify that official clients really are official -- without some sort of verification, writing a borg would be absolutely trivial. -Jonathan