Re: Klima/Rosa attack (was: Re: Diffs for next draft)

Edwin Woudt <edwin@woudt.nl> Fri, 24 August 2001 17:48 UTC

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Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 19:23:59 +0200
From: Edwin Woudt <edwin@woudt.nl>
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Subject: Re: Klima/Rosa attack (was: Re: Diffs for next draft)
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disastry@saiknes.lv wrote:

> v5 seckey packet will broke seckey exchange with older versions,
> while new s2k not - it will still be possible to import seckey in older
> ver with aged workaround - unprotect them, export, import into older ver,
> protect again.

Uhm... this approach will also work for v5 secret key packets: just 
unprotect and convert the packet to v4 before exporting.


Edwin