Hi August,

On 2021-03-02 08:33:00, you wrote to Tommi Koivula:

 TK>> "enter your private PGP key"... :)

 AA> I was just moving my own keys from one of a pc to my Blackberry
 AA> when something interesting occurred to me.  First of all, my
 AA> opengpg prompted for my existing passphrase *before* it would
 AA> E)xport the key.  Secondly, even if someone had the key in their
 AA> possession, they would need to know the passphrase to use it.

 AA> So, it seems that *just* having the private key block (without
 AA> also knowing the passphrase) is not very useful to anyone.

Some people save their private key without a password, for easy usage.
Sometimes you "need" to save it without a password when you need to use it from
automated scripts.

And when a key has a simple password, it would be possible to brute force
finding the password...

Bye, Wilfred.

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