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Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2015 20:19:00 +0100
From: Kristian Fiskerstrand <kristian.fiskerstrand@...ptuouscapital.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE for Kali Linux

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On 03/22/2015 06:55 PM, Kurt Seifried wrote:
> 

...

> The problem is to do this you need some key/shared
> secret/verifiable secret, e.g. a GPG key. How do I get the GPG key
> securely?

The same way as for bootstrapping key validity using OpenPGP , in the
absence of a direct verification path a probabilistic trust model can
be used, mainly. The package being signing using the same key over
time signifies that it is coming from authoritative source (unless
you've been MITMed a long time), the fingerprint of the OpenPGP key
should be included in email announcements and other documents that are
being mirrored by multiple sources, reducing the likelihood of a MITM
if corresponding information is the same in multiple archives over a
long time. Its always better to have a direct validation path to the
key in question, but all is not in vein without it.


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Kristian Fiskerstrand
Blog: http://blog.sumptuouscapital.com
Twitter: @krifisk
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Public OpenPGP key 0xE3EDFAE3 at hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net
fpr:94CB AFDD 3034 5109 5618 35AA 0B7F 8B60 E3ED FAE3
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