Are TOFU statistics used for validity or conflict resolution?

Peter Lebbing peter at digitalbrains.com
Fri Jun 23 12:52:48 CEST 2017


On 23/06/17 11:14, Neal H. Walfield wrote:
> No, both keys are set to ask.  The key with a lot of observed
> signatures could be bad.  This could occur, if there is a MitM, but
> the MitM has a small lapse, because, perhaps, you've used an
> unintercepted network path to retreive the "new" signature & key.

So if I understand correctly, the "summary"/"validity" field merely
affects the text that is displayed to the user when displaying TOFU
statistics?

Cheers,

Peter.

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