Hello. On 5 March 2011, at 00:06, Charly Avital wrote:
> NV wrote the following on 3/4/11 6:40 PM: >> >> In the GPG Keychain Access key above photography I see >> "This key may be unsafe" in red. >> >> What does it mean and what could be wrong with this key? >> >> TIA > > > The most likely cause (but not the only one) is that your passphrase is > not strong enough. > When you generate a key, and enter the passphrase of your choice, gnupg > will balk at you if it considers that your passphrase is not strong > enough. GnuPG will also output that "...a passphrase should be composed > of at least" a given number of characters *that will include different > entries like letters, numbers, etc.*. Beware, some punctuation signs are > excluded. It could be related with the passphrase, but I have changed the pass and the 'warning' persists there. I never saw this warning before, but only recently I installed the 'new' GPG Keychain Access ( 0.8.4). Thank you very much for your quick answer. -- NV KeyID:0xC9CFBFA0
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