2 thoughts on “SHA1 Collisions Get Cheaper

  1. Incidentally, AFAIK all versions of GPG will accept SHA1 "subkey binding signatures", which means that one can inexpensively take a third party's public key and produce another, which contains an enemy-generated subkey in addition to your legitimate one, and will still emit "gpg: Good signature from "You foo@bar…" using RSA key ID yourgenuinekeyid" when a message signed with the glued-on subkey is run through gpg –verify. Such a diddled key will return "valid" on both genuine (signed by your genuine priv.) and enemy-generated sigs.

    The correct pill against this is to finally throw out the "subkeys" and "bindings" nonsense and distribute fixed-modulus public keys.

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