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Re: Secret key signature packet

2005-08-23 11:37:58

On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 01:51:49PM -0400, Adam Back wrote:

I might be misunderstanding but I read the original poster to be maybe
hinting at modification detection of the private key ring somehow.

I am not sure of any attack based on modifying the private key in an
undetectable way... that would generally seem to make invalid
signatures, and inability to decrypt.  

Could the original poster be thinking of the Klima-Rosa attack and the
secret key "s2k 254" SHA-1 protection?

David


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