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Questions tagged [passphrase]

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Do I need to have a passphrase for my SSH RSA key?

Before I started at my current job (at a small business), my office had no firewall on the network and literally nothing was ever being backed up. Now that I've signed on as a dedicated sysadmin / one-man-IT-department, I've been doing what I can to…
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public key always asking for password and keyphrase

I am trying to SSH from a NAS to a webserver using a public key. NAS user is 'root' and webserver user is 'backup' I have all permissions set correctly and when I debug the SSH connection I get: (last little bit of the debug) debug1:…
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How to change the passphrase of a duplicity backup?

How to change the passphrase of a duplicity backup? I tried to just provide a new one when doing a backup but was faced with an error. GPGError: GPG Failed How should I proceed to change the passphrase?
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Forgotten LUKS passphrase

i am stuck with a big problem. I have encrypted my linux drive with LUKS and now I can't remember it. During boot, it prompts me for the passphrase, but I went into troubleshooting mode and deleted the entry from /etc/crypttab so at least I can boot…
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Convert WEP key to passphrase

How can I convert a 10-digit (in HEX) WEP key to it's corresponding passphrase? I've recovered the WEP key by a software tool (eg: 3666386162). Now I want to connect to this wifi network, so I need it's passphrase The Question: Is there any…
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Passwordless SSH not working from terminal as I get prompted for the RSA passphrase

We have set up a CentOS 6.4 box with passwordless SSH to multiple other systems. This works fine when using a terminal as the correct user directly on the CentOS computer. However, if I log into the CentOS box as one of those same users from another…
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Does the length of a WPA2-PSK passphrase affect wireless performance?

Will the performance of my home wireless network be affected by an overly long WPA2-PSK passphrase? Is the passphrase used only during authentication or is it used to encrypt all frames?
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Pass doesn't ask for passphrase

I am using pass (http://www.zx2c4.com/projects/password-store/) on ubuntu 12.04. Process: apt-get install pass gpg --gen-key pass init pass insert test pass test After the last command, this is the output: gpg: gpg-agent is not…
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Can GnomeKeyring store passwords unencrypted?

I have a Fedora 15 laptop with the root and home partitions encrypted using LUKS. When it boots I have to enter a pass phrase to unlock the master key, so I have it configured to automatically log me in to my account. However, GnomeKeyring remains…
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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\Profiles\Interfaces\{INTERFACE UUID} and the…
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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 it. It goes like this: gpg --output $file_to_edit…
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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 the point of the passphrase? I don't get it. From…
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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 identity file itself is even applicable at all to the…
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Failure to decrypt a gpg file using a passphrase within unix

I'm trying to decrypt a file using the following command within a unix shell prompt: gpg --passphrase-file /path/to/passphrase/file --output /path/to/output/dir/full_db_restore --decrypt full_db_backup_current.tar.gpg I get the following error when…
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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 use long ssh passwords containing spaces? Usually…
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