OpenPGP installations can grind to a halt and fail to verify the authenticity of downloaded packages as the keyserver network has been flooded with bogus extra signatures attesting ownership of a ...
Two researchers are being singled out in what are called PGP poisoning or flood attacks that render the authentication tool unusable for victims. A long-feared attack ...
Two high-profile PGP project contributors have faced attacks conducted by unknown threat actors which have been able to poison certificates used by the SKS keyserver network. PGP is a form of ...
An attack on a key server and the subsequent poisoning of the certificates of two OpenPGP contributors — Robert Hansen and Daniel Gillmor — has created a situation where the only safe approach is for ...