At 4:20 PM -0500 10/29/98, Adam Back wrote:
Some people have been talking about using passwords as private keys. (By using the passphrase as seed material for regenerating the private and public key).
I don't think this is a good idea.
You can't forget passphrases. You can destroy private key files.
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