PGP - how strong?

[carstenht]

Hi all,

My company handles very sensitive business information for our customers. We often travel, carrying some of this information on laptops. But if a laptop gets stolen or lost, you can imagine the headaches. So, my question is, how effective is full disk encryption from ie. PGP? Has it been broken (not talking about guessing the code)? How long would an estimated time be if the highest possible encryption and key is used?

and what woul be faster in terms of decrypt/encrypt efficiency? put all data on a vmware image and only encrypt that or an entire physical disk?. I lean more towards the vmware image..