1. Please enter your username and key passphrase

2. Please supply the passphrase for your SSH private key

3. However, for additional security the private key itself can be locked with a passphrase.

4. Many Botnets are designed to harvest data, such as passphrases, Social Security numbers, credit card numbers, addresses, telephone numbers and other personal information

5. This technique is called key stretching and is used to make a brute-force search for the passphrase more difficult.

6. 2) Aptly publish This prompts me for my passphrase for said key, so it must be doing something with the key at that point

7. When you change your sync passphrase, all your data is deleted from Google’s servers and all your synced computers and devices are signed out.