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PGP Links & Notes



Matt Brodeur writes:

> On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 08:45:19AM -0400, Kevin D. Clark wrote:
>
>> I do something like this, but I don't dare carry my secret keys in
>> removable media in an unencrypted format.  So, I encrypt my secret
>> stuff with a symmetric cypher, for example:
>
> This is, in fact, exactly what the built-in passphrase system does.

Very true.  Because it was never made clear to me in the PGP/GPG docs
what cypher was being employed, at some point in the past I decided to
be sure.

Regards,

--kevin
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