Security of the gpg private keyring?

Faramir faramir.cl at gmail.com
Fri Apr 1 02:03:49 CEST 2011


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El 28-02-2011 11:09, David Shaw escribió:
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> You can do quite a lot with stuff like this.  Who signed who can tell you who this person has met, and often where.  If you see a bunch of signatures around a particular date, look for a keysigning party on that date - now you have evidence they were there.  Email addresses can reveal an enormous amount of information about a person.  Robert and I did an experiment a few months ago where starting only from his public key, I was easily able to find out real-world addresses, parents names, siblings, etc.

  Of course, you can collect some noise too, after all, people don't
need your authorization to sign your public key.
  There was a "funny" case, about key 0xAC88553D getting a signature
from key 0xDE4C0E35

  Best Regards
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