In retrospect, yes it's easy to break. Getting to that understanding, however, was greatly facilitated by the aforementioned key leak. I recall the great excite

In retrospect, yes it's easy to break. Getting to that understanding, however, was greatly facilitated by the aforementioned key leak. I recall the great excitement when it happened, and the subsequent proposals of making that number "illegal" (discouraging dissemination). Upshot, regardless of technical details: we've been over the "golden key law" concept many times thru several decades, with numerous dramatic examples of why it's a really really bad idea. We can continue arguing about what exactly went wrong then, and why "it will be different this time", but if we've learned anything it's "no, it won't be different this time."