Security of PGP private keys

Perry E. Metzger pmetzger at lehman.com
Wed Oct 27 08:47:54 PDT 1993



Richard Kennaway says:
> PGP secret keys are protected by a password.  Yet people have said that one
> should not keep one's secret keyring on an insecure machine.  Why?

Because people can capture your keystrokes when you enter in the
password. They then have your secret key.

Perry






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