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Mar 12 2006

Open-source bugs undermine digital signatures

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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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