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Ah thank you. I was under the impression there were recognisable patterns from the programs, but I guess not enough to make it crackable. Thinking about it given the number of calculations a modern processor can make a second, plus the exponential nature of such things it shouldn't be that surprising.
However if various prominent pure mathematicians start disappearing in mysterious circumstances we may need to worry...