[Quix]

So the public discussions about the incredible lengths of the prime number keywords (or some such--well into my level of ignorance here) to insure astronomical levels of encryption. . . must be roughly true to protect our communications in this era of massses of super computers.

[Poohbah]

Yup. And the traffic's getting encrypted at just about every step of the way, so you're talking about cracking 5 or 6 different systems to figure out what the message is.