Oracle behavior in Gnupg? // (was 'possible bug in gpg?')

Ben McGinnes ben at adversary.org
Tue Jul 31 11:56:00 CEST 2012


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On 31/07/12 1:14 AM, David Shaw wrote:
> 
> Yes, this is expected behavior.  It follows from what I explained 
> earlier in this thread.  When you use --override-session-key, you 
> bypass the quick check (after all, you gave the override key -
> what is there to check?) so you are seeing GnuPG choke on the
> invalid OpenPGP structures resulting from the garbage decryption.

On a related note, is it possible to extract the session key
(--show-session-key), but without decrypting the file in the process?
Just obtain the session key and stop there?  I've already tried -n
(--dry-run) and that still decrypts the file.


Regards,
Ben

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