TABLE 1


ESTIMATED TIME NEEDED TO RECOVER A SINGLE KEY USING THE 250 WORKSTATIONS USED BY THE BERKELEY STUDENT WHO SOLVED RSA'S 40-BIT CHALLENGE*

Number of Bits	Average Time	Time If Key Is Found 1/3 of the Way Through the Full Exhaust**
40	5.5 hours	3.6. hours.
56	41 years	27 years.
64	11 thousand years	7 thousand years.
80	690 million years	455 million years.
128	13 trillion times the age of universe	9 trillion times the age of the universe.

TABLE 2


PRIVACY VS. LAW ENFORCEMENT ACCESS TO INTERNET COMMUNICATIONS “The Government needs to be able to scan internet messages and user communications to prevent fraud and other crimes.”

	Internet Users (Percent)	Non-Internet Users (Percent)
Agree strongly	18	35
Agree somewhat	33	29
Disagree somewhat	25	19
Disagree strongly	24	15