[Enigmail] Where are my GnuPG keys stored?

John Clizbe John at Mozilla-Enigmail.org
Tue Mar 11 16:17:21 PDT 2008


Billy O Clinton wrote:
> That is why I revoked my last public key (DGP) because I realized I
> didn't use a strong enough passphrase. This time I made it pretty
> strong! 

I don't suppose the idea of just changing the passphrase to something stronger
occurred to you?

   gpg --edit-key 0xdecafbad passwd

> Not sure how good of an idea this was, but I took a book and
> went to a certain page and copied the characters/words and added a
> fairly long number I could memorize. Maybe 80+ characters, hope that is
> secure enough. I figured I'd never forget my passphrase with this method
> because I could go into any bookstore in the world and retrieve my code
> again.

Provided the book was still in print 8-})

-- 
John P. Clizbe                      Inet:   John (a) Mozilla-Enigmail.org
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"how do i get experience?"          / "two words: bad decisions."

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