Re: Re: pgp passphrase

[Cedric Blancher <blancher () cartel-securite fr>]

Le dim 21/03/2004 à 02:41, Max Valdez a écrit :
> > Keylogger ?
> Intelligent enoght to know wish keystrokes are passphrase ?? 

Good point, if we consider the worm to be autonomous.

But a worm may be a wonderful information gathering tool for someone
that is able to extract strings that could be passphrases and passwords
from a keylog, and then evaluate them them against a private key.

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