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RE: hohocon
> From: Timothy Newsham <[email protected]>
>
> hmm.. looks like the ideal for someone to test out a dos virus that
> looks for the PGP passphrase and for secret key rings and tries to
> "get out alive" with them.
>
> Tim N.
>
> Coders start your engines.
>
Don't type your PGP passphrase on a PC owned by someone else! You
don't have to use your passphrase to exchange keys. Keys can be
extracted, added, etc. without the passphrase being entered.
I don't see any way a virus could be spread via PGP key exchange. At
best (worst) a virus could somehow attach itself to the PGP key file
but it would be just passive data. It wouldn't do anything.
Hal