Re: Death of PGP Key 0xFBAF5E44 at 19:03 02 Jan 1999 UTC

Ben Laurie (ben@algroup.co.uk)
Sun, 03 Jan 1999 18:45:41 +0000

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Anonymous wrote:
> We went over all this already on one of the crypto lists. Elliptic curve
> has no advantage in this regard. Using any of these methods will probably
> significantly weaken your key, unless you have a much stronger passphrase
> than most people use.

How do you know the strength of most people's passphrases?

Cheers,

Ben.

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