Awwww. That hurts Bruce,
Given that that cartoon is printed out and hanging up in my cube at work it hurts to have it pulled out now =)

I agree with that sentiment 100%, and I hope it serves to illustrate why my initial post had many more points about things like

Site location and security
Personnel Security
etc etc etc

Please don't confuse discussing key length with being solely focussed on it.

Dean

On 10/06/11 6:26 AM, Bruce Kingsbury wrote:

And for anyone who's thinking TL;DR here's the summary from xkcd;

http://xkcd.com/538/

A security process is only as strong as it's weakest link and if you have a nice strong chain overall there's no point forging one particularly massive link somewhere along the way just because you happened to have surplus steel or you think it makes the chain look intimidating.