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Re: [Full-disclosure] Using second gpg keyring may be misleading?



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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