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1996-04-29 - Re: PGP and pseudonyms

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From: Alan Olsen <alano@teleport.com>
To: Steve Reid <cypherpunks@toad.com
Message Hash: 70ee20f8a427ad6ab14e33350307db8a5d85863e694eafab208960960aaeae3b
Message ID: <2.2.32.19960428231217.00ac5b6c@mail.teleport.com>
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UTC Datetime: 1996-04-29 08:16:12 UTC
Raw Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 16:16:12 +0800

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From: Alan Olsen <alano@teleport.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 16:16:12 +0800
To: Steve Reid <cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: PGP and pseudonyms
Message-ID: <2.2.32.19960428231217.00ac5b6c@mail.teleport.com>
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At 03:08 PM 4/28/96 -0700, Steve Reid wrote:
>Suppose someone were using a pseudonym, and had a seperate PGP key for
>this pseudonym. If this person's secret keyring were stolen, could
>person=pseudonym be revealed, based on the key ID? Or would it require
>knowing the passphrase? 

Yes, the person=personna would be revealed.  No, a passphrase would not be
needed.

To demonstrate try "pgp -kv secring.pgp" and see what you get.

I hope this gets fixed in PGP 3.0.
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