Re: Using second gpg keyring may be misleading?

["Thor (Hammer of God)" <thor () hammerofgod com>]

Ah...  Very interesting.  Another example where "default trust" can be a bad thing (as we saw with Flame).

Sent from my iPad

On Jun 15, 2012, at 6:43 AM, "Georgi Guninski" <guninski () guninski com> 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.

_______________________________________________
Full-Disclosure - We believe in it.
Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html
Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/