[Pkg-privacy-maintainers] Bug#836266: Bug#836266: Bug#836266: Bug#836266: Bug#836266: dirmngr: Please disable "use-tor" by default.

Antoine Beaupré anarcat at debian.org
Tue Aug 28 03:50:36 BST 2018


>  4. This actually parses the packet as well and this is where things get
>     a little more complicated: what's an acceptable response from a
>     keyserver?  This is another thing that's delegated to GnuPG right
>     now, but it would be interesting to formalize this and (self-?)
>     authenticate the key material. Or can we delegate *just* that bit to
>     GnuPG?

I guess this whole re-implementation feasibility question can be
summarized as such:

    Is `gpg --import` safe to run against untrusted data? If not, how
    does it differ from `gpg --recv-keys`?

A.

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