full-disclosure - Re: pgp passphrase

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Message-ID: <20040320233330.GA12212@hockwold.net>
From: warlock at eskimo.com (Jim Richardson)
Subject: Re: pgp passphrase

On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 03:29:56PM -0800, Blue Boar wrote:
>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.
>
>					BB
>


I would be interested to see how it would accomplish that. 


-- 
Jim Richardson     http://www.eskimo.com/~warlock
"I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up
something else."
     --Lily Tomlin
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