Re: passphrases

[Adam Schreiber <sadam clemson edu>]

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Adam Schreiber <sadam clemson edu> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 1:00 AM, Michael Parker <jked mail com> wrote:
>> I am interested in knowing about the security of passphrases.  Are there any
>> resources that explain this?  I want to understand the scenario of
>> encrypting a file that stays on the same system where I generated the key,
>> and then losing that system.
>
> I would direct you to the GPG manual [1] for a description of
> passphrase and key security.
>

Whoops, missed the link.

[1] http://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/manual.html#AEN513


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