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Message-ID: <87bjjfh5tw.fsf@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2025 16:07:23 -0800
From: Collin Funk <collin.funk1@...il.com>
To: Henrik Ahlgren <pablo@...stieto.com>
Cc: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Many vulnerabilities in GnuPG

Henrik Ahlgren <pablo@...stieto.com> writes:

> Peter Gutmann <pgut001@...auckland.ac.nz> writes:
>
>> Does anything actually use the cobweb of trust, or do you just assume the key
>> you've got is good because doing anything else is too hard?
>
> Perhaps the Debian developer keyring would serve as a compelling
> example? They even organize actual key-signing parties, which many
> cryptography experts today appear to regard as "LARPing" or otherwise
> ridiculous.

Or the Linux kernel [1].

Collin

[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v6.19-rc2/process/maintainer-pgp-guide.html#using-the-kernel-org-web-of-trust-repository

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