[Pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#725411: gnupg: gpg blindly imports keys from keyserver responses

Paul Wise pabs at debian.org
Sat Aug 23 17:00:39 UTC 2014


In addition to the user expectations issues Andrew mentions, it isn't
too hard to imagine attacks that take advantage of colliding key-ids,
blind key imports by gpg and tools/users that only look at key-ids.

http://www.asheesh.org/note/debian/short-key-ids-are-bad-news

-- 
bye,
pabs

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