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    AA>> So, it seems that *just* having the private key block   
    AA>> (without also knowing the passphrase) is not very useful   
    AA>> to anyone.   
      
    WvV> Some people save their private key without a password, for   
    WvV> easy usage.   
      
   Easy, but very unwise.  Otherwise, what's the point?  Yeah..     
   some people deserve to be compromised, I guess.   
      
    WvV> Sometimes you "need" to save it without a   
    WvV> password when you need to use it from automated scripts.   
      
   Scripting..  never thought of that. But I seem to recall that     
   there are ways to pass the passphrase via a variable or     
   something which would be better than having no passphrase at     
   all.   
      
    WvV> And when a key has a simple password, it would be possible   
    WvV> to brute force finding the password...   
      
   I wish I could remember what I used for:   
      
   pub   512R/246249F7 1994-02-16   
    Fingerprint=BC 1B B6 D5 15 AC F1 D4  F2 B4 0F A2 D6 31 7F 53   
      
   I'm pretty sure that's me as "abolins" when you do a key search.   
      
   I know that I have the private key stored on a 3.5" diskette -     
   somewhere.  I used pgp to email TODO lists to myself from home     
   to work and back.  I don't think I could brute force the secret     
   if I tried.  It was a modified latvian phrase. The key is what     
   did I do to tweak the phrase?   
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