Re: [PLUG] how to lose your rights and freedom...

[gabriel rosenkoetter <gr@eclipsed.net>]

On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 06:32:03PM -0500, Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
> This is one reason to change your encryption keys frequently (thus
> having lots of encryption sub-keys). What would be subpoenaed,
> presumably, would be the decryption key, not your passphrase. So your
> signing key is safe.
> 
> (Remember, if you "forgot" your passphrase, you better never sign
> anything again.)

Not disagreeing, just picking nits:

This happens to be true for the exact format of PKI that OpenPGP
uses, but it's not generally true (not even generally true of PKI
systems).

-- 
gabriel rosenkoetter
gr@eclipsed.net

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