On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 1:07 PM, Christine Kremsmayr <[email protected]> wrote:
> I only have a vague and incomplete understandig of the procedure in which > GnuPG derives a private key from a password. To my understanding, the key is not derived from the passphrase, it is generated independently of it. The passphrase is used to encrypt the private key, in order to protect it. This is symmetric encryption and the passphrase is stored nowhere. I am not sure whether this helped you to understand it or made you even more confuse.
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