looking up pgp keys

Hauke Laging mailinglisten at hauke-laging.de
Sat Sep 14 23:50:25 CEST 2013


Am Do 12.09.2013, 12:42:21 schrieb Tim Prepscius:

> Malicious hacker replaces key with different key.

You don't even need hackers. How do you prove when a key has changed on the 
keyservers (even if they were not compromised)?


> So other servers can detect the change, and Bob can detect the change
> through other servers.

To me that is a strange argument in the context of cryptography.


Hauke
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