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Re: Re: pgp passphrase


From: Blue Boar <BlueBoar () thievco com>
Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 15:29:56 -0800

Jim Richardson wrote:

Key won't do them much good if they don't have my passphrase :)
cant the key be bruteforced in some kind of distributed fashion ? like
spam sending bot we could also have key brute forcing bots ....
dunno, I'd be willing to listen to evidence that it could, but put it
pretty low down on the list of things to worry about.

No need, the worm would steal the passphrase while it was running on your host.

                                        BB

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