Forgot my passphrase.

Daniel Carrera dcarrera@math.umd.edu
Mon May 26 04:05:02 2003


On Sun, May 25, 2003 at 03:37:05PM -1000, Denis McCauley wrote:

> It's too late now, as you've revoked the key, but I just wonder whether
> you did in fact change the passphrase. If you omitted  the "save"
> command at the end of the process the passphrase would not have been
> changed.

I tried that.  The passphrase was definitelly changed.

> It's also a good lesson on the value of keeping backups, which would
> enable you to return to a version of the key with the old passphrase

Good idea.  I'll do that in the future.

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