A passphrase for all keyrings

Robert J. Hansen rjh at sixdemonbag.org
Mon Jan 12 21:50:42 CET 2015


> At the moment one has to remember a passphrase for each keypair, 
> which becomes more difficult as you have several emails each
> associated with different key pairs.  Would it be possible to have
> one passphrase for the whole bunch of keypairs?

Sure, just use the same passphrase for each certificate.  There's some
risk here, in that if one passphrase gets compromised all your
certificates get jeopardized, but if you're comfortable accepting that
risk then go for it.


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