Hackers are poisoning public keys, otherwise known as certificates, with large amounts of signatures (alterations to the certificate's content) which is breaking the GnuPG software used by individuals to store their own and others' certificates. The issue has been known to the developers for over a decade. This protocol applies to a user's public keys stored in Synchronising Key Servers (SKS), like a telephone directory for PGP public keys. ![]() More specifically, hackers are exploiting an issue with the OpenPGP, the rules which govern PGP certificates much in the same way HTML specifies how to write a web page. ![]() The developers of Pretty Good Privacy (PGP), also known as asymmetric cryptography - the industry standard for secure communications - have revealed that a core feature of the technology is 'devastatingly' and 'irreversibly' under attack from unknown hackers.
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