[46637] in Cypherpunks
Re: Revoking Old Lost Keys
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David E. Smith)
Sat Jan 6 15:07:19 1996
Date: Sat, 06 Jan 1996 13:57:17 -0600
To: tcmay@got.net (Timothy C. May)
From: "David E. Smith" <dsmith@midwest.net>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
At 11:11 AM 1/6/96 -0800, tcmay@got.net wrote:
>If one can safely and securely store a revocation certificate for later
>use, why not just store the much shorter passphrase?
If the security of the safely-stored passphrase is violated, a lot of
trouble can be caused. There's not nearly as much that can be done with
a stored revocation certificate.
dave
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