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Message-ID: <405CD3F4.6070602@thievco.com>
From: BlueBoar at thievco.com (Blue Boar)
Subject: Re: pgp passphrase

Jim Richardson wrote:

>>> Key won't do them much good if they don't have my passphrase :)
>> cant the key be bruteforced in some kind of distributed fashion ? like
>> spam sending bot we could also have key brute forcing bots ....
> dunno, I'd be willing to listen to evidence that it could, but put it
> pretty low down on the list of things to worry about.

No need, the worm would steal the passphrase while it was running on 
your host.

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