secret key id disclosure

Ryan Malayter rmalayter@bai.org
Thu Oct 11 19:14:02 2001


Ach, I was looking at the subkey ID, which I (not remembering the structure
of DSS/DH keys) mistakenly thought was my secret key. Too many malt
beverages, I guess...


:::Ryan Malayter, MCSE
:::Bank Administration Institute
:::Chicago, Illinois, USA
-----Original Message----- From: disastry@saiknes.lv.NO.SPaM.NET [mailto:disastry@saiknes.lv.NO.SPaM.NET] Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 2:07 AM To: gnupg-users@gnupg.org Subject: Re: secret key id disclosure *** PGP Signature Status: good *** Signer: Disastry <disastry@saiknes.lv> (Invalid) *** Signed: 10/11/2001 12:06:05 AM *** Verified: 10/11/2001 9:10:54 AM *** BEGIN PGP VERIFIED MESSAGE *** Ryan Malayter wrote:
> My DSS/DH secret keys don't have the same key-id as their
> corresponding public keys. Perhaps that relationship is true only of
> RSA keys?
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: disastry@saiknes.lv.NO.SPaM.NET
> >
> > btw, secret key have the same key-id as public key
> > Disastry
they are the same for both DSS, RSA, Ellamal keys: c:\>gpg --list-keys disastry pub 1024D/2E250C64 1997-09-30 Disastry <disastry saiknes.lv> sub 3072g/991C445E 2000-01-27 [expires: 2005-01-28] pub 2040R/ED97BF3F 2001-01-25 Disastry <disastry iname.com> c:\>gpg --list-secret-keys disastry sec 1024D/2E250C64 1997-09-30 Disastry <disastry saiknes.lv> ssb 3072g/991C445E 2000-01-27 sec 2040R/ED97BF3F 2001-01-25 Disastry <disastry iname.com> and I'm sure they are the same even for your keys ;-) == <EOF> == Disastry http://i.am/disastry/ http://disastry.dhs.org/pgp <----PGP plugins for Netscape and MDaemon ^--GPG for Win32 (supports loadable modules and IDEA) ^----PGP 2.6.3ia-multi05 (supports IDEA, CAST5, BLOWFISH, TWOFISH, AES, 3DES ciphers and MD5, SHA1, RIPEMD160, SHA2 hashes) *** END PGP VERIFIED MESSAGE *** _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users