change the passphrase

[Marc Mutz]

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On Thursday 15 November 2001 09:13, Chris Niekel wrote:
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> I've made a bit of a mistake, and send my passphrase partially in a 
> mail to a hotmail account. So, learning to be paranoid, I thought it 
> might be a good idea to change it.
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Speaking of being paranoid:
  Make sure you delete all copies of the keyring that still contain the 
old passphrase. And "delete != rm" here. "delete == shred(1)" at the 
least or better: "delete == shred(physically) && burn".

Marc

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