some opencdk history

Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos nmav at gnutls.org
Sat Jul 12 11:17:39 CEST 2008


Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> On Wed 2008-07-09 12:49:59 -0400, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos wrote:
> 
>> What will happen if someone tries to access the MPIs?
> 
> The MPIs associated with a locked secret key are currently set to
> NULL, so they are rejected by GnuTLS -- attempts to export them result
> in an error (-50, i believe), but no crash.

I don't know if this is enough. We should have a way to indicate that
this key is encrypted otherwise it would not be distinguishable from
broken keys. Do you have something in mind for that?





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