1993-04-12 - how secure is secring.pgp?

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From: J. Michael Diehl <mdiehl@triton.unm.edu>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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UTC Datetime: 1993-04-12 18:15:54 UTC
Raw Date: Mon, 12 Apr 93 11:15:54 PDT

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From: J. Michael Diehl <mdiehl@triton.unm.edu>
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 93 11:15:54 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: how secure is secring.pgp?
Message-ID: <9304120127.AA06741@triton.unm.edu>
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Yet another pgp question... We don't get any pgp news groups here.

Since we need a passphrase to access our secret key, it is reasonable to think
that our secring.pgp file is pretty secure, as long as our passphrase is 
notrivial.  What am I missing here?

Thanx in advance.

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