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Re: Security of PGP if Secret Key Available?

To: [email protected] (Derek Atkins)
Subject: Re: Security of PGP if Secret Key Available?
From: Adam Shostack <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 1996 19:10:26 -0500 (EST)
Cc: [email protected], [email protected]
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]> from "Derek Atkins" at Jun 6, 96 01:56:47 pm
Sender: [email protected]

Leave it for 3.1.  There are worse programs being advanced because
people feel we're waiting too long for PGP3.

Derek Atkins wrote:

| PGPlib has an interface to encrypt the whole keyring, however that
| probably isn't going to be fully implemented unless time permits.
| This interface allows you to encrypt the WHOLE keyring in a
| passphrase, which includes not only the secret components, but the
| public components as well.  However I don't know if I'll have the time
| to get to it.

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					               -Hume

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- Re: Security of PGP if Secret Key Available?
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