full-disclosure - Re: pgp passphrase

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From: gazpa at euskalnet.net (Alain Crespo)
Subject: Re: pgp passphrase

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On Sunday 21 March 2004 18:54, Frank Knobbe wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-03-20 at 19:41, Max Valdez wrote:
> > > Keylogger ?
> >
> > Intelligent enoght to know wish keystrokes are passphrase ??
>
> Nah, keyloggers don't have to be intelligent, they just have to log
> data. It is *you* that needs to be intelligent when reviewing the
> captured key strokes.

Keyloggers also can store the window name and the text field name where it is 
typed. 
And then, no intelligence is needed. ;)

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un saludo,

Alain Crespo <gazpa@...kalnet.net>
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