full-disclosure - Re: pgp passphrase

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Message-ID: <200403220857.56884.maxvalde@fis.unam.mx>
From: maxvalde at fis.unam.mx (Max Valdez)
Subject: Re: pgp passphrase

On Sunday 21 March 2004 11:54 am, 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.
Of course, but a Keylogger have to be intelligent to automatize the job if you 
want it to be on a worm.

After all, there are revocation certificates if our key is stolen isnt it ?? 
So you need the worm to be fast if you want to use a stolen key.

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