TID: FMail-lnx64 2.1.0.18-B20170815   
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   Hi August,   
      
   On 2021-03-02 08:33:00, you wrote to Tommi Koivula:   
      
    TK>> "enter your private PGP key"... :)   
      
    AA> I was just moving my own keys from one of a pc to my Blackberry   
    AA> when something interesting occurred to me.  First of all, my   
    AA> opengpg prompted for my existing passphrase *before* it would   
    AA> E)xport the key.  Secondly, even if someone had the key in their   
    AA> possession, they would need to know the passphrase to use it.   
      
    AA> So, it seems that *just* having the private key block (without   
    AA> also knowing the passphrase) is not very useful to anyone.   
      
   Some people save their private key without a password, for easy usage.   
   Sometimes you "need" to save it without a password when you need to use it   
   from automated scripts.   
      
   And when a key has a simple password, it would be possible to brute force   
   finding the password...   
      
   Bye, Wilfred.   
      
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