So, it seems that *just* having the private key block
(without also knowing the passphrase) is not very useful
to anyone.
Some people save their private key without a password, for
easy usage.
Easy, but very unwise. Otherwise, what's the point? Yeah..
some people deserve to be compromised, I guess.
Sometimes you "need" to save it without a
password when you need to use it from automated scripts.
Scripting.. never thought of that. But I seem to recall that
there are ways to pass the passphrase via a variable or
something which would be better than having no passphrase at
all.
And when a key has a simple password, it would be possible
to brute force finding the password...
I wish I could remember what I used for:
pub 512R/246249F7 1994-02-16
Fingerprint=BC 1B B6 D5 15 AC F1 D4 F2 B4 0F A2 D6 31 7F 53
I'm pretty sure that's me as "abolins" when you do a key search.
I know that I have the private key stored on a 3.5" diskette -
somewhere. I used pgp to email TODO lists to myself from home
to work and back. I don't think I could brute force the secret
if I tried. It was a modified latvian phrase. The key is what
did I do to tweak the phrase?
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