Re: PGP and pseudonyms

[Rich Graves <llurch@networking.stanford.edu>]

On Sun, 28 Apr 1996, Steve Reid wrote:

> > >this pseudonym. If this person's secret keyring were stolen, could
> > >person=pseudonym be revealed, based on the key ID? Or would it require
> > >knowing the passphrase?
[...]
> I guess pseudonymity(sp?) wasn't the main concern when PGP was created.
> 
> I suppose a temporary fix would be to not use an ordinary PGP passphrase,
> but rather encrypt the whole secring.pgp file. Decrypt it when you need
> it, and be very careful to properly clean up when you're done.

Huh?

Just use multiple secring.pgp files, and toggle PGPPATH. What's the
problem? 

I guess that wouldn't be so convenient on the Mac version, I guess, but
you could write an AppleScript to swap file/folder names.

-rich