Enforcing password complexity for private keys
Karl Auer
kauer at biplane.com.au
Tue Apr 30 17:32:37 CEST 2019
On Tue, 2019-04-30 at 18:50 +0530, Cyaniventer wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Apr 2019 06:55:07 -0400
> David Milet <david.milet at gmail.com> wrote:
> > We’re considering rolling out GnuPG at work for developers to sign
> > git commits.
> > [...]
> imo long term solution will be to tell them more about passwords and
> why choosing a good password is important.
Might also be worth asking yourself why you feel you need to sign git
commits. Also, if the people you are asking to sign with a GPG key are
not savvy enough or interested enough to choose good passwords (I
assume you mean good passphrases?) then you might have problems that
GPG won't solve.
Regards, K.
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