Top "Passphrase" questions

A passphrase is a sequence of words or other text used to control access to a computer system, program or data.

How do I remove the passphrase for the SSH key without having to create a new key?

I set a passphrase when creating a new SSH key on my laptop. But, as I realise now, this is …

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How to reset or change the passphrase for a GitHub SSH key?

I have forgoten my passphrase in Git. How do I reset it? I found two solutions on Stack Overflow, but …

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SSH: "Bad passphrase" after generation of public key

When I execute these commands (setting a passphrase, after the first)... $ ssh-keygen -t dsa $ chmod 600 my_key $ chmod 600 my_key.…

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lftp with key + passphrase

I'm using lftp to send files to an SFTP server, but I don't how to connect with key and passphrase. …

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How to make gpg prompt for passphrase on CLI

The encryption tool of gnuPG package gpg prompts for passphrase using a GUI dialog box when invoked by a regular …

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Suppress the passphrase prompt in GPG command

Edited Version I have a question about GPG, but I write all of the process, maybe it will help someone. …

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ssh key passphrase works in windows but not in linux

I'm working to a project in git. In Windows, I'm using git extensions to manage this project, and to access …

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How do you generate passwords?

How do you generate passwords? Random Characters? Passphrases? High Ascii? Something like this? cat /dev/urandom | strings

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Setup passphraseless ssh to localhost on OS X

I'm trying to get Hadoop's Pseudo-Distributed Operation example (http://hadoop.apache.org/common/docs/stable/single_node_setup.html) to …

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Java passphrase encryption

I'm trying to learn how to do passphrase-based encryption with Java. I'm finding several examples online, but none (yet) on …

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