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> A passphrase protects a private key file NOT the data. So why would Linode even bring it up?

I would bring it when discussing how I cryptographically secured sensitive data. Especially, when people might be confused and try to argue that they should have used pbkdf2 and not encrypted the information (because they were thinking about password hashes).



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