1993-10-27 - Re: Security of PGP private keys

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From: “Perry E. Metzger” <pmetzger@lehman.com>
To: jrk@sys.uea.ac.uk (Richard Kennaway)
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UTC Datetime: 1993-10-27 15:47:54 UTC
Raw Date: Wed, 27 Oct 93 08:47:54 PDT

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From: "Perry E. Metzger" <pmetzger@lehman.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 93 08:47:54 PDT
To: jrk@sys.uea.ac.uk (Richard Kennaway)
Subject: Re: Security of PGP private keys
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Richard Kennaway says:
> 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?

Because people can capture your keystrokes when you enter in the
password. They then have your secret key.

Perry

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• 1993-10-27 (Wed, 27 Oct 93 07:52:41 PDT) - Security of PGP private keys - jrk@sys.uea.ac.uk (Richard Kennaway)
  • 1993-10-27 (Wed, 27 Oct 93 08:47:54 PDT) - Re: Security of PGP private keys - “Perry E. Metzger” <pmetzger@lehman.com>
  • 1993-10-27 (Wed, 27 Oct 93 16:02:42 PDT) - Re: Security of PGP private keys - Brad Huntting <huntting@glarp.com>
    • 1993-10-28 (Wed, 27 Oct 93 23:18:05 PDT) - Re: Security of PGP private keys - zeek@io.com
      • 1993-10-28 (Wed, 27 Oct 93 23:38:05 PDT) - Re: Security of PGP private keys - J. Michael Diehl <mdiehl@triton.unm.edu>