Just in case you aren't uncomfortable enough yet after the past week -- http://www.technologyreview.com/news/517781/math-advances-raise-the-prospect-of-an-internet-security-crisis/From the article: "Our conclusion is there is a small but definite chance that RSA and classic Diffie-Hellman will not be usable for encryption purposes in four to five years..." Lovely. Juuuuust lovely. I don't know about any one else, but I've always used RSA. I think I'll look into changing that...... so, I looked into changing it, and to save every one else the trouble: the main branch of gpg and gpg2 that everyone else uses doesn't support elliptic curve algorithms. There's gpg2ecc which does, and the development (beta) release of gpg does... but the problem is that nobody else is going to be using these things. So in other words, nobody except those who went out of their way to get these programs will be able to decrypt your messages, which makes sending them to begin with pretty pointless. I guess we're stuck with RSA for the time being.