Subject: IMPORTANT: Mandatory password and ssh key change by 2011-11-30

Tomas Mraz tmraz at redhat.com
Thu Oct 13 09:13:02 UTC 2011


On Thu, 2011-10-13 at 10:59 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: 
> On 10/12/2011 09:59 PM, Mike McGrath wrote:
> > On Wed, 12 Oct 2011, Henrik Nordström wrote:
> >
> >> ons 2011-10-12 klockan 13:04 -0500 skrev Mike McGrath:
> >>
> >>> Lots of people use and share keys across different projects.
> >>
> >> There is no security issue in sharing kes across different projects,
> >> other than that it gives a strong hint that you are the same person in
> >> both projects, much stronger than name or email.
> >>
> >
> > Sorry I didn't explain it very well.
> >
> > 1) People share keys across different projects.
> > 2) We've found PRIVATE keys on our servers
> > 3) We have no reason to believe private keys that can authenticate to
> > Fedora weren't on some of the compromised systems we've heard so much
> > about.
> 
> 4) There are indications for keys being shared between indivuals.
Which you dreamed up and made false accusations of. But let's suppose
that anyone really shares their private keys on purpose what would
prevent them to share them again if they change them?

-- 
Tomas Mraz
No matter how far down the wrong road you've gone, turn back.
                                              Turkish proverb



More information about the devel mailing list