Questions tagged [passphrase]
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Dangerous vulnerability: pinentry-mac completely and continuously disables prompt for GPG passphrase
The short story:
I just installed pinentry-mac and this asks me my passphrase only once but then decrypt gpg files without asking for passphrase
The long story:
I am running macos and I use gpg and ...
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How to use SSH passwords with spaces?
We recently started using long passwords for all our logins, it took everyone a bit to get used to but I have noticed that ssh doesn't work when the password has a has space in it.
Is there a way to ...
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Luks "No key available with this passphrase" but seemingly at random
I've been having the strangest of experiences with my encrypted Luks volume and was hoping maybe someone could help me shed some light on it. Let me walk you through it.
When installing my OS (vanilla ...
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non-interactive ssh-keygen in Windows PowerShell: create a key pair and avoid pressing enter for location and empty passphrase
In Windows PowerShell, with ssh-keygen, how to create an SSH key pair with a private key that has no passphrase (password), without having to confirm twice the empty passphrase, and without having to ...
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How can I enter key passphrase only once instead of thrice?
I have a passphrase protected key file to access server. I have to enter passphrase thrice every time I open my computer. Once for pagent (putty, winscp, ...). Once for bash (git, ...). And once for ...
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How to verify an ssh key is valid for a given a host?
I want to test the validity of an ssh passphrase-protected identity file against a given host. I do not want to actually provide the passphrase nor do I necesarily know it, just verify that the ...
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I can log in successfully with ssh sert, even if I do not provide passphrase
My client OS is Ubuntu 18.04, server is Ubuntu 16.04. I created and uploaded new ssh certs, created ssh config. Cert has passphrase. When I try to log in via ssh in terminal, there appears Gnome ...
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How does Windows 7/8/10 store and protect WiFi password?
What encryption algorithm and what key is being used to encrypt WiFi
passphrase storage in Windows 10. I am trying to understand this.
I looked at the XML file at C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Wlansvc\...
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No prompt for setting a passphrase in GPG Keychain
I am trying to use GPG Keychain with Thunderbird (version 60.5.1) and Enigmail (version 2.0.9 / 20181209-1409).
In the process of generating a key for the email address after setting the password and ...
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Decrypt and encrypt a file using gpg without re-typing the passphrase
[Notice: my problem is similar to this. And related to this]
Basically I want to edit a symmetrically encrypted filed and then encrypt it again using the same passphrase, without the need to retype ...
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Shortcut to unhide the master password of KeePass
I have a long password (passphrase) and so I often have to check if I typed it correctly. So I have to move my hand from the keyboard to the mouse to click that unhide button.
Is there a hotkey, ...
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How to reset a root password using the passphrase ?
I've lost my root password and I would like to recover it (as you might have guessed).
I have the passphrase but don't know what I can do with it ?
Thanks
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GnuPG: Add passphrase to passphrase-less key
I've created my PGP keypair using an online site.
The thing is, I didn't provide a passphrase upon creation; The site didn't make supplying a passphrase mandatory.
Since this key is passphraseless, ...
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GPG passphrase vs public key encryption
If I have a GPG file that's passphrase protected, with no key, is it still encrypted? (It was hard to google for an answer to that question). A guy on answers.yahoo.com said it's not. So... what's ...
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How do you set the gpg-agent passphrase ttl?
I'm having troubles trying to get gpg-agent to cache my passphrase for a long time.
I'm using FreeBSD, GnuPG 2.1.11
I've created a .gnupg/gpg-agent.conf file with the following
default-cache-ttl ...
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