I am fairly sure this is a particularily naive question but its been making me think for a few days.
The question that I'd like to ask of those more in the know than I is: Does partially known passphrases/cipher keys offer a great risk to encryption? Obviously for something simple like a Vigenere cipher its a huge problem. However, does it offer a great risk for something like OpenPGP if the passphrase used to access the secretkey is partially compromised? And in turn if the passphrase is completely known yet the secret key is still secured (physically) does knowing this passphrase risk a complete compromise of the key pair? -- Padraig MacIain url: http://www.bur.st/~darke/ (Nimheil) "That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons even death may die."
