full-disclosure - Re: pgp passphrase

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Message-ID: <1079859206.6254.23.camel@anduril.intranet.cartel-securite.net>
From: blancher at cartel-securite.fr (Cedric Blancher)
Subject: Re: pgp passphrase

Le dim 21/03/2004 ? 02:41, Max Valdez a ?crit :
> > Keylogger ?
> Intelligent enoght to know wish keystrokes are passphrase ?? 

Good point, if we consider the worm to be autonomous.

But a worm may be a wonderful information gathering tool for someone
that is able to extract strings that could be passphrases and passwords
from a keylog, and then evaluate them them against a private key.

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