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Nick Andriashwrote:
> > no. wrong. you don't need to remove/restore passphrase! (but you may
> > need to remove/restore passphrase when transferring key from gpg to
> > pgp)
> 
> I was kind of curious myself as to why one would have to 'remove' the
> passphrase.

because in GPG key may be protected by cipher not supported in PGP,
(blowfish,thofish,aes) and PGP will not be able to decrypt such private key.

> To be honest with you, I don't even know how one goes about
> 'removing' the passphrase?

change passphrase, enter old one, and just hit enter when it asks for new passphrase.

> Do you mean simply replacing it with a space
> or some such thing?

replacing with nothing. space also is a passphrase, very weak one..

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