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Re: [openpgp] New fingerprint: to v5 or not to v5

Watson Ladd <watsonbladd@gmail.com> Tue, 13 October 2015 10:59 UTC

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Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 06:59:28 -0400
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From: Watson Ladd <watsonbladd@gmail.com>
To: Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>
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Cc: Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org>, Phillip Hallam-Baker <phill@hallambaker.com>, Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>, IETF OpenPGP <openpgp@ietf.org>
Subject: Re: [openpgp] New fingerprint: to v5 or not to v5
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On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 12:19 AM, Peter Gutmann
<pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
> Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org> writes:
>
>>People have done this for X.509 keys a lot (although I heard that Mozilla now
>>complains about using a new X.509 certificate with key material known from
>>another certificate).
>
> The practice is unfortunately far too common in the X.509 world, where the
> same key is re-certified year in, year out.  The end result is a worst-of-
> both-worlds system where you're forced to pay a CA every year to make the
> browser warnings go away, but don't get the benefit of changing your key to
> limit the damage due to a compromise.  It's more PKI security theatre I
> guess...

X509 keys are authentication keys. You cannot go back and authenticate
things that failed after compromise.
>
> Peter.



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