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dead beef attack
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2014-04-26 15:54:15 +00:00
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n. [cypherpunks list, 1996] An attack on a public-key cryptosystem
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consisting of publishing a key having the same ID as another key (thus
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making it possible to spoof a user's identity if recipients aren't careful
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about verifying keys). In PGP and GPG the key ID is the last eight hex
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digits of (for RSA keys) the product of two primes. The attack was
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demonstrated by creating a key whose ID was 0xdeadbeef (see DEADBEEF ).
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