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Re:Strategies for offline PGP key storage by Grollicus on Thursday October 05, 2017 @04:25PM (#15412321)
Of course, because that drastically reduces the key space.

Before: 2^2048, After: 256^20 = 2^160 (when using a 20 key password. Obviously you could use looong random generated passphrases, but then you could just base64encode your key?)

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Re:Strategies for offline PGP key storage by palunon on Thursday October 05, 2017 @06:55PM (#15413187)
2^160 is still a massive key space for symetric encryption.

Symetric and asymmetric encryption don't have the same key length standards.

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