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Re: [Full-disclosure] Using second gpg keyring may be misleading?
- To: Georgi Guninski <guninski@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Using second gpg keyring may be misleading?
- From: "Thor (Hammer of God)" <thor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 21:46:37 +0000
Ah... Very interesting. Another example where "default trust" can be a bad
thing (as we saw with Flame).
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On Jun 15, 2012, at 6:43 AM, "Georgi Guninski" <guninski@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 05:52:26PM +0000, Thor (Hammer of God) wrote:
>> What are you considering exploitable? The untrusted/unverified "Master" key?
>>
>
> ubuntu fixed this out of paranoia:
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2012-June/001721.html
>
>> While it appears that a man-in-the-middle attacker cannot
>> exploit this, as a hardening measure this update adjusts apt-key to
>> validate all subkeys when checking for key collisions.
>
> i would suppose this was exploitable while it was alive.
>
>
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