Is their anyway to change your passphrase of a set key?
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From: Frank Tobin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thursday, March 23, 2000 4:36 am
Subject: Re: if someone steals your key...
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Trevor Smith, at 20:52 -0400 on Wed, 22 Mar 2000, wrote:
Exactly how much resources would it take to "break" a private key
without the pass phrase? Just wondering. Someone was expressing
worry about people knowing where to find his private key if they
should go
snooping.
Your private key is encrypted symmetrically with a hash of your
passphrase. Given that the algorithm used is good, the best
attack lays
in the way of brute-forcing the passphrase. Hence, if the
passphrase is
poor, it will be relatively easy to break the key, while if the
passphraseis strong it will be more difficult. Useful information
and references
can be found at:
http://world.std.com/~reinhold/diceware.html
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