[90096] in Cypherpunks
Re: Key Signing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Stewart)
Sat Nov 15 03:48:53 1997
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 1997 00:23:28 -0800
To: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>, cypherpunks@toad.com
From: Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>
In-Reply-To: <v04002705b09258139cc2@[139.167.130.248]>
Reply-To: Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>
At 02:47 PM 11/14/1997 -0500, Robert Hettinga wrote:
>Except, how was Bill able to change the passphrase if he didn't know the
>old one?
It's one of Richard Stallman's old passwords.....
I was surprised that PGP 5.0 does the right thing when the passphrase
is empty - it's one of those things that's easy to miss, and in C
often leads to bad behaviour.
Thanks!
Bill
Bill Stewart, stewarts@ix.netcom.com
Regular Key PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639
