Is their anyway to change your passphrase of a set key?
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----- Original Message -----
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:
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> > 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
>
> - --
> Frank Tobin http://www.uiuc.edu/~ftobin/
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> "To learn what is good and what is to be valued,
> those truths which cannot be shaken or changed." Myst: The Book
> of Atrus
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