private key protect cipher

[Maxine Brandt]

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On Thursday, March 27,2003 David Shaw replied:

| If you look at this end to end, then the weakest spot is still the
| passphrase, but unless the attacker can get to your local system and
| steal your private key, there is no way take advantage of this.
|
|
OK. That's clear. Just two more questions.
1...Do I get any extra protection in using a password (random
characters) longer than 128 bits?
2...If I import keys created in PGP does GPG use the PGP cipher or does
GPG convert to CAST5?

Cheers,

Maxine Brandt
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