Re: PGP

From: Michael Kjorling (michael@kjorling.com)
Date: 08/24/01 

Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 17:45:03 +0200 (CEST)
From: Michael Kjorling <michael@kjorling.com>
To: Thorsten Kutska <dagolar@web.de>
Subject: Re: PGP
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0108241743140.15550-100000@varg.wolfpack>

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Your passphrase is only used to encrypt the private key; nothing else.
This means that even if someone manages to get their hands on the
private keyring (which stores the private key), the information is
encrypted making it a lot harder to use.

There is more about passphrases at the pages linked to from
http://www.pgpi.org/doc/faq/passphrase/

Michael Kjörling

On Aug 24 2001 16:29 +0200, Thorsten Kutska wrote:

> hmm, i'm promted to enter a passphrase during key generation in PGP. is PGP
> using that phrase to generate the symmetric key and uses random primes to
> generate the RSA key?
>
> thorsten

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