[Sks-devel] Analyzing key server data

2015-03-22 Thread Hanno Böck
Hi, I think this could be interesting for a couple of people: I had a project running in private for quite a while, I now published the details: I wrote a script that analyzes the dumps from key servers and puts the crypto values into a mysql database. This can be used to search for vulnerable k

Re: [Sks-devel] Analyzing key server data

2015-03-22 Thread Daniel Roesler
Great paper! Thanks! From the paper: > However when trying to calculate the private keys it turns out most > of these results aren't real signatures. I was under the impression that SKS verified signature packets both during upload and during gossip. If so, how did invalid or corrupt signature pa

Re: [Sks-devel] Analyzing key server data

2015-03-22 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On Sun 2015-03-22 10:33:01 -0500, Daniel Roesler wrote: > I was under the impression that SKS verified signature packets both > during upload and during gossip. SKS does no cryptographic verification. :( Even if it were to start doing verification, it's not clear how that would work with certific