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Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 17:37:14 +0000

Eugene Leitl:
>The original comment's context was digital signatures. A digital signature 
>is worth sqrat if any userspace app or rogue superuser code can grab your 
>keyring in clear

If you have a rogue app on your machine, what
keeps it from sniffing your passphrase? This is
one of the reasons I keep harping on the need for
thin, secure clients.

>A passphrase is a (long, secure) password unlocking (decrypting) your 
>keyring. You don't use a passphrase to read your email.

When I read email, I want to respond to email,
which means, were I using a digital signature,
that it needs to be at the ready.


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