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PGP secret keys are protected by a password. Yet people have said that one should not keep one's secret keyring on an insecure machine. Why? -- ____ Richard Kennaway __\_ / School of Information Systems Internet: jrk@sys.uea.ac.uk \ X/ University of East Anglia uucp: ...mcsun!ukc!uea-sys!jrk \/ Norwich NR4 7TJ, U.K.
Richard Kennaway says: > PGP secret keys are protected by a password. Yet people have said that one > should not keep one's secret keyring on an insecure machine. Why? Because people can capture your keystrokes when you enter in the password. They then have your secret key. Perry
> PGP secret keys are protected by a password. Yet people have said that one > should not keep one's secret keyring on an insecure machine. Why? Passwords are often guessable. brad
*> > PGP secret keys are protected by a password. Yet people have said that one *> > should not keep one's secret keyring on an insecure machine. Why? *> *> Passwords are often guessable. Passwords may also be picked up over telephone lines. It is good to keep them short, wacko, and in human memory. #$%Osd(@ is a good one. -z
According to zeek@io.com:
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> *> > PGP secret keys are protected by a password. Yet people have said that one
> *> > should not keep one's secret keyring on an insecure machine. Why?
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> *> Passwords are often guessable.
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> Passwords may also be picked up over telephone lines. It is good to keep
> them short, wacko, and in human memory.
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> #$%Osd(@ is a good one.
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Ya right, about as good as qwerty, which is in many wordlists these days.
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