changing of passphrase

[David Shaw]

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On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 03:28:32PM -0400, Douglas Elznic wrote:
> Hello,
>  I was interested in changing my passphrase for my gpg key. It seems
> that if it is a good idea to change nomral passwords from time to time
> that it would also be a good idea to change gpg passphrases. When I
> enter passwd into the edit-key dialog it say that it is changing the
> passphrase for my 1024-bit DSA key, ID 13300731, created 2001-07-07.
> Will this change my passphrase for my secret key as well? I did not
> think that there was separate passwords for pub and private key but the
> output is confusing me. And howcome changing of gpg passphrases
> regularly is not recommended anywhere in the docs?

Your public key is not passphrase protected (after all - it's public!)
When you change the passphrase, you are changing it on your secret
key.

David

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