Security Flaw Discovered in GPG

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday March 9, 2006 @02:22PM from the enemy-within dept.

WeLikeRoy writes "A serious problem in the use of GPG to verify digital signatures has been discovered, which also affects the use of gpg in email. It is possible for an attacker to take any signed message and inject extra arbitrary data without affecting the signed status of the message. Depending on how gpg is invoked, it may be possible to output just faked data as several variants of this attack have been discovered. All versions of gnupg prior to 1.4.2.2 are affected, and it is thus recommended to update GnuPG as soon as possible to version 1.4.2.2."

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Aha! by jav1231 · 2006-03-09 15:03 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Maybe Apple will finally appoint a Security Czar and take care of these flaws and all you Apple Fanboys....oh wait...
You... by woolio · 2006-03-09 19:00 · Score: 1, Flamebait

what is GPG?

You are a disgrace to nerds!