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Open source bugs threaten digital signatures

Publication:Silicon.comDate:Mar 14 2006
Reporter:Joris Evers

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A pair of security bugs in cryptography software could allow an attacker to insert content into a digitally signed message or forge signatures on files.

The flaws lie in the open-source GNU Privacy Guard software, also known as GnuPG and GPG, the GnuPG group said in two alerts. The software, a free replacement for the Pretty Good Privacy cryptographic technology, ships with many open source operating systems such as FreeBSD, OpenBSD and many Linux distributions.




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