Re: Blank passphrase
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Date: 24 Aug 2002 18:56:59 GMT
in comp.security.ssh i read:
>I set up my keys with no passphrase. I later decided to add one. I used
>ssh-keygen -p and followed the prompts. When asked for the old passphrase,
>no matter what I enter, it tells me 'bad passphrase'.
this indicates that there is a passphrase on the key. except for a brute-
force attack there is no way to recover, and that is likely to take years
if you don't have any clues as to what the passphrase might have been like,
so you'll probably have to count the key as lost and generate a new one.
-- bringing you boring signatures for 17 years
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