[pmmail-list] PGP

[Howard Winter]

Ed,

On Thu, 01 Mar 2001 09:23:10 -0500, Edward B. Germain wrote:

>I'm fuzzy about security.  Is there clear documentation about it somewhere?

 Not in PMMail - you need to get hold of the PGP documentation and study that.

>And I've a problem: PMmail (Windows 2K) and I don't agree on what my passphrase is, and I am not sure 
how to reenter it.  Do I delete the pubring* and secring* files?  

 * NO! *  If you delete your Secret keyring file, you will have lost the use of your key for ever!

 Try running PGPKeys "naked" rather than trying to do it through PMMail, and try variations on your 
passphrase until you hit the right one (capitalisation, spacing, punctuation are all significant).  If you can't get 
the right one, then you *have* lost your key for ever, because there is no way to revoke it, or change the 
passphrase or do anything else, without the correct passphrase.  That's security for you!

 If that is the case, you will need to generate a new key, and use that in future, and somehow persuade 
people to use only the new one when encrypting things for you - if they use the "lost" key,  you won't be able 
to decrypt stuff sent to you.

 The PGP docs spell all this out, in fact I think there's a FAQ on a PGP website, but I don't have the URL to 
hand.

 For the record, I have a key that I can't use because I've forgotten the passphrase, and trying everything I 
thought it could be has drawn a blank - so you're not alone!

 Good luck,

 Howard Winter
 St.Albans, England.



PGP Public Key Fingerprint= C8 2B DE DE E5 CE 71 4D  B1 6C BF 21 D4 A2 A8 0D

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