>>I probed again, this time about their capability at 40 bits; maybe that reduced level wasn’t such a State secret. But again, Dave was mum. I recall that 40 b

>>I probed again, this time about their capability at 40 bits; maybe that reduced level wasn’t such a State secret. But again, Dave was mum. I recall that 40 bit encrypted Word documents obtained from Al-Qaeda safe houses in Afghanistan after 9/11 were successfully cracked. It was reported in the media, so it was an open secret after that.