Re: Re: pgp passphrase

[Jim Richardson <warlock () eskimo com>]

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. 


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