Full Disclosure: Re: Using second gpg keyring may be misleading?

[Georgi Guninski <guninski () guninski com>]

On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 05:52:26PM +0000, Thor (Hammer of God) wrote:
> What are you considering exploitable?  The untrusted/unverified "Master" key?
ubuntu fixed this out of paranoia:
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2012-June/001721.html

> While it appears that a man-in-the-middle attacker cannot
> exploit this, as a hardening measure this update adjusts apt-key to
> validate all subkeys when checking for key collisions.
i would suppose this was exploitable while it was alive.


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