It took a long time, but now it's done. The first level cracked. Sure, a 2048-bit key is still quite difficult to crack, but it's foreseeable when these limits will also fall. Time for new algorithms and new approaches. My PGP 2.63uin version (please don't be alarmed by the layout of the pages, that's all still from 1998) already had 8129-bit key length, which should last a little while longer. At heise online news there's the original article.