Re: Red team attacks vs. cracking

[Henning Makholm <henning@makholm.net>]

Scripsit Gunnar Wolf <gwolf@gwolf.org>
> Henning Makholm dijo [Wed, May 31, 2006 at 04:10:51AM +0200]:

>> A KSP that depends on there being any pre-existing trust to abuse is
>> *completely worthless* as a KSP whether or not that trust is abused
>> or not.

> Ummm... There is a certain metric of pre-existing trust that _does_
> exist here. Lets go back to Martin's specific case, to exemplify.

I'm not saying that the trust does not _exist_, just that it should
not be _necessary_ for the proper functioning of the keysigning
process.

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