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bytehamsteryesterday at 6:04 PM1 replyview on HN

If I understood their first demo correctly, they verified a fedora iso with a detached signature. The booted iso then printed "hello 39c3". https://streaming.media.ccc.de/39c3/relive/1854


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unscaledyesterday at 6:32 PM

It was a cleartext signature, not a detached signature.

Edit: even better. It was both. There is a signature type confusion attack going on here. I still didn't watch the entire thing, but it seems that unlike gpg, they do have to specify --cleartext explicitly for Sequoia, so there is no confusion going on that case.