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Re: PGP and pseudonyms
At 03:08 PM 4/28/96 -0700, Steve Reid wrote:
>Suppose someone were using a pseudonym, and had a seperate PGP key for
>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?
Yes, the person=personna would be revealed. No, a passphrase would not be
needed.
To demonstrate try "pgp -kv secring.pgp" and see what you get.
I hope this gets fixed in PGP 3.0.
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