| gabriel rosenkoetter on Fri, 14 Feb 2003 19:10:33 -0500 |
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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 Attachment:
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