Security Vulnerability: Faulty GPG Signature Checking

Sebastian Reuße seb at wirrsal.net
Fri Jun 15 08:20:58 CEST 2018


Tobias Girstmair <junkgir-passwd at yahoo.de> writes:

> On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 05:09:35PM +0200, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:

>> Our recommendations for authenticity and integrity continue to be to
>> enable git commit signing, which pass has built-in support for.

> Maybe this should be mentioned/explained on passwordstore.org
> (grepping for 'sign' didn't turn up anything useful)

Perhaps it would also make sense for Jason to refer to git-remote-gcrypt
[1], which, in addition to authenticity and integrity, also provides
confidentiality for file-system level metadata (password entry names and
the directory tree) on the remote side, something that has been
discussed here in the past.

[1] <https://spwhitton.name/tech/code/git-remote-gcrypt/>

Kind regards,
SR

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