Password for keyring

John Clizbe John at Mozilla-Enigmail.org
Thu Nov 11 23:33:28 CET 2010


Mohan Radhakrishnan wrote:
> We use passphrases for protecting the secret key. Is there a passphrase for
> accessing the keyring itself ?

No, unless the secret keyring is stored on some form of encrypted volume which
is a different subject.

-John

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