Hi! Am Freitag, den 06.02.2009, 19:16 +0100 schrieb Matthias Mansfeld: > > even if the rumours are true that "the government" may have such an > > ability, we'd never know. > > Then they would need brute force against key AND password or they > know about weaknesses in algorithms which nobody else knows.
Let me clarify this a bit: Whoever wants to break your key needs to do "only" one of the following: 1) Retrieve your public key and break the RSA/... key. -OR- 2) Get access to your secret keyring file and then break the passphrase. NB: Having one's public key and knowing his/her passphrase does not compromise the key. cu, Sven _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users