Security of PGP if Secret Key Available?

Adam Shostack adam at homeport.org
Fri Jun 7 06:03:37 PDT 1996


Leave it for 3.1.  There are worse programs being advanced because
people feel we're waiting too long for PGP3.

Derek Atkins wrote:

| PGPlib has an interface to encrypt the whole keyring, however that
| probably isn't going to be fully implemented unless time permits.
| This interface allows you to encrypt the WHOLE keyring in a
| passphrase, which includes not only the secret components, but the
| public components as well.  However I don't know if I'll have the time
| to get to it.

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