Benjamin Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> You are pretty much out of luck, then. The whole point behind things like > PGP is that they aim to provide unbreakable encryption. If you lose your > passphrase, you effectively become an attacker. If they made it easy for > you, they would make it easy for the attacker. Your only option would be to > brute force the key -- you might crack it in a few billion years. This is all pretty much false. Paul has lost the passphrase that protects his cryptographic keys. He's *does* have the cryptographic keys though. Paul needs some way of recovering the passphrase. If this is Really Important, Paul can recover his passphrase, if he wants to devote sufficient resources and/or resources to this task. However, let me categorize this further: it probably won't take thousands of years of computing time to recover the passphrase. Suggestion: http://www.accessdata.com/Product00_Download.htm?ProductNum=00 --kevin -- "There was no way in hell Bill Gosper was going to work under a man who did not know why the logarithm of the sum was not the sum of the logarithms." -- Steven Levy, _Hackers_ ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
