Handling a TOFU conflict

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Thu Dec 8 19:36:00 CET 2016


On Thu,  8 Dec 2016 11:34, neal at walfield.org said:

> reasoned argument.  (If there was one please point me to it.)

Aside from discussions here, we discussed this in person, on ohone, and
on jabber several times.  I know that you write a paper where you argued
that protecting against homograph is important.  I do not share this
view, though.  What seems to be a homograph to one person it is a
plausible different entity to another person.

> Then we'll have to disagree.  I would honestly and sincerely like to
> hear what you think TOFU is trying to protect against.

To detect and warn about a different key with the same mail address.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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