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Re: Analyzing dumps (Was: 6 million)
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William Hay |
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Re: Analyzing dumps (Was: 6 million) |
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Mon, 04 May 2020 15:39:58 +0100 |
Thus spake "Kiss Gabor (Bitman)":
> I cannot imagine how this dump could be created.
> Could the attacker upload broken packets or is it "sks dump"
> who garbled the dump file? Or file became bad during
> compression/decompression?
I don't think sks does much validation of packets so anything could
be uploaded. I've found in the past with broken dumps that hkt from
hopenpgp-tools works fairly well as a filter. It manages to skip
broken keys and carry on while GnuPG just aborts at the first badly
broken key.
William