Re: [Acme] Proposed fix to signature reuse vulnerability

Tony Arcieri <bascule@gmail.com> Thu, 24 September 2015 04:42 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Acme] Proposed fix to signature reuse vulnerability
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On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 8:18 PM, Andrew Ayer <agwa@andrewayer.name> wrote:

> This change looks good to me, security-wise.  I'm pretty confident it
> fully fixes the vulnerability and doesn't introduce any new flaws
> (unlike the mitigation, which made me rather uneasy).


+1 (on both points)

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Tony Arcieri