In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Tue, 30 Apr 2002 
06:30:34 -0700 (PDT), Tim Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

t0psecret> Thanks for the help... I'm pretty new at this stuff. 
t0psecret> So, the private key is protected with the export
t0psecret> password, but this is a one-time password that is only
t0psecret> used when importing?  From my standpoint it would
t0psecret> really be nice to have a permanent password on the
t0psecret> private key... Is this something that is common with
t0psecret> SSL?  If not, I'm wondering how Windows would react to
t0psecret> such a thing.

It *is* a permanent password.  The private key is simply encrypting
with that password as a master key.

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