Hi August,

On 2021-03-02 09:16:00, you wrote to me:

 WvV>> Sometimes you "need" to save it without a
 WvV>> password when you need to use it from automated scripts.

 AA> Scripting..  never thought of that. But I seem to recall that
 AA> there are ways to pass the passphrase via a variable or
 AA> something which would be better than having no passphrase at
 AA> all.

Yes. But it's more work... People are lazy.

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

 AA> I wish I could remember what I used for:

 AA> pub   512R/246249F7 1994-02-16
 AA>  Fingerprint=BC 1B B6 D5 15 AC F1 D4  F2 B4 0F A2 D6 31 7F 53

 AA> I'm pretty sure that's me as "abolins" when you do a key search.

 AA> I know that I have the private key stored on a 3.5" diskette -
 AA> somewhere.  I used pgp to email TODO lists to myself from home
 AA> to work and back.  I don't think I could brute force the secret
 AA> if I tried.  It was a modified latvian phrase. The key is what
 AA> did I do to tweak the phrase?

Talk to your local NSA office. Maybe they can help? ;-)

Bye, Wilfred.

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