🚀 go-pugleaf

-		It is virtually impossible for an outsider to break the 
-	decrypting key, which consists of a binary string of more than 1,000 
-	characters, Mr. Vanstone said.
-		"It would take more than a billion years, working with the 
-	fastest computers available, to break just one key," he said.

I hope it is obvious to most readers of this newsgroup that
the above claim is bullshit.  A similar argument would lead
to the claim that Rubik's cube would take forever to solve.

I personally have broken cryptosystems with longer keys.
There is more to cryptosystem strength than key length.