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Last active October 1, 2022 04:28
SKS Keyserver Network Attack: Consequences

SKS Keyserver Network Attack: Consequences

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Back in late February, the Internet Freedom Festival put together a roundtable of communications security nerds to help dissidents in Venezuela figure out how to organize and communicate in the face of widespread DNS poisoning. I contributed a brief HOWTO explaining what the Maduro regime was doing and some simple, effective mitigations. At the very top of the HOWTO was a paragraph of security considerations. Chief among them was a caution that this document came with an OpenPGP digital signature: before relying on the information in the document they ought ensure nobody had tampered with it, either to install malware into the PDF or to alter the advice I was giving.

I put this HOWTO out in the wild. I've had four people send me thank-you notes for writing it. I figure that means it's been seen by between fo

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Last active April 14, 2024 12:28
SKS Keyserver Network Under Attack

SKS Keyserver Network Under Attack

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Terminological Note

"OpenPGP" refers to the OpenPGP protocol, in much the same way that HTML refers to the protocol that specifies how to write a web page. "GnuPG", "SequoiaPGP", "OpenPGP.js", and others are implementations of the OpenPGP protocol in the same way that Mozilla Firefox, Google Chromium, and Microsoft Edge refer to software packages that process HTML data.

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