AW: AW: AW: How to fix "ERROR key_generate 3355453" / "GENKEY' failed: IPC call has been cancelled"

[Werner Koch]

On Tue,  4 Sep 2018 18:31, Roman.Fiedler at ait.ac.at said:

> At which byte offset should I find the signer key fingerprint?

That is an encrypted message and thus can you seen the the signature. 

>> Leaving this out would not help because it is easy to
>> figure out the key by trial verification against all known keys.
>
> Well, that would be all keys in the 2^2048 key space, so the problem
> should be as hard to solve as factorization itself. As keys are never
> transmitted unencrypted, the attacker has no chance to know a single

Nope.  Public keys, which are required to check a signature, are, as the
name says, public and availabale from several sources, for example the
key servers.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner


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