From: J. Michael Diehl <mdiehl@triton.unm.edu>
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 93 23:38:05 PDT
To: zeek@io.com
Subject: Re: Security of PGP private keys
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According to zeek@io.com:
> 
> 
> 
> *> > PGP secret keys are protected by a password.  Yet people have said that one
> *> > should not keep one's secret keyring on an insecure machine.  Why?
> *> 
> *> Passwords are often guessable.
> 
> Passwords may also be picked up over telephone lines.  It is good to keep
> them short, wacko, and in human memory.  
> 
> #$%Osd(@ is a good one.  
> 

Ya right, about as good as qwerty, which is in many wordlists these days.


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