On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 02:55:03AM +0100, Alistair Crooks wrote: > On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 11:09:40AM +1000, Daniel Carosone wrote: > > On Sat, May 09, 2009 at 03:46:28AM +0100, Alistair Crooks wrote: > > > > > [...] since there's no way of changing a PGP passphrase > > > short of generating a new key. > > > > Huh? Sure, you have a need to deal with keyring copies from before > > the change, maybe with some more rm -P and its limtations, but > > otherwise, I don't understand this. > > Sorry, I must be missing something then (perfectly possible, now I'm > old and grey) - how do you change the passphrase on a PGP key? For gpg, the passwd sub-command under edit-key. For other implementations, special sigils created by waving the magic wand^Wpointer. If the corresponding feature is missing from this implementation, that's a deficiency, but not a limitation of the format. Someone might implement the feature, or you might combine tools since the keyring format is standardised and (I hope) therefore the tools are interoperable. -- Dan.
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