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1996-06-07 - Re: Security of PGP if Secret Key Available?

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From: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
To: warlord@MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Message Hash: bf88961bba9dec4f83b9f486ca4c3dbcc05959f458dcaae5ebad336ae9cd1481
Message ID: <199606070010.TAA05952@homeport.org>
Reply To: <199606061756.NAA16447@toxicwaste.media.mit.edu>
UTC Datetime: 1996-06-07 13:03:37 UTC
Raw Date: Fri, 7 Jun 1996 21:03:37 +0800

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From: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 1996 21:03:37 +0800
To: warlord@MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Subject: Re: Security of PGP if Secret Key Available?
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Leave it for 3.1.  There are worse programs being advanced because
people feel we're waiting too long for PGP3.

Derek Atkins wrote:

| PGPlib has an interface to encrypt the whole keyring, however that
| probably isn't going to be fully implemented unless time permits.
| This interface allows you to encrypt the WHOLE keyring in a
| passphrase, which includes not only the secret components, but the
| public components as well.  However I don't know if I'll have the time
| to get to it.

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