Re: spam closes Debian bugs!
Wouter Verhelst <wouter@grep.be> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 04:54:20PM +0100, Mathieu Roy wrote:
>> Andreas Metzler <ametzler@downhill.at.eu.org> wrote:
>> > Signing mails is work.
>>
>> Then you clearly use broken tools. I'm sorry but with all the mailers
>> I know, signing a mail is just clicking on a button or typing a
>> shortcut, and then typing the passphrase.
>
> I hope for your sake that your passphrase is not just a single-letter
> thingy.
I am not a fool. My passphrase is a _phrase_.
> If it is, thanks for providing me with some inside information to
> work on my web of trust; if it isn't, well, the most work in signing
> *anything* is exactly in typing the passphrase. My gpg passphrase is
> significantly longer than my 8-letter logon password; entering that
> when sending a mail is what I call "work", even with the 60-second
> timeout mutt gives me when signing a mail (since usually, it takes
> me more than that time to prepare the mail.
How long do you need to type "I hope for your sake that your
passphrase is not just a single-letter thingy"?
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Mathieu Roy
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