Win32 passphrase proposal

[Andrew McDonald]

On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 09:47:41AM -0500, Daryl Krauter wrote:
> Anyway, since there are slots in the Windoze Registry for GnuPG which allow
> alteration of 'language' and 'homedir', I'd like to propose adding one more:
> 
>     Specifically 'passphrase'
> 
> This would (of course) be an alternative to the '--passphrase-fd'
> on the command-line, but (perhaps) slightly more secure.

Why not just have a key with no passphrase? I believe that this is
possible, and seems to be equivalent to what you are proposing.


Andrew
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