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posted by martyb on Saturday September 23 2017, @04:10PM   Printer-friendly
from the information-wants-to-be-free? dept.

Adobe is showing that it can be transparent about its security practices:

Having some transparency about security problems with software is great, but Adobe's Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) took that transparency a little too far today when a member of the team posted the PGP keys for PSIRT's e-mail account—both the public and the private keys. The keys have since been taken down, and a new public key has been posted in its stead.

The faux pas was spotted at 1:49pm ET by security researcher Juho Nurminen:

Oh shit Adobe pic.twitter.com/7rDL3LWVVz
— Juho Nurminen (@jupenur) September 22, 2017

Nurminen was able to confirm that the key was associated with the psirt@adobe.com e-mail account.

Also at The Register and Wccftech.

[How many here have done something like this? Perhaps an extra file accidentally uploaded to GitHub? --Ed.]


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  • (Score: 2) by frojack on Saturday September 23 2017, @09:35PM

    by frojack (1554) on Saturday September 23 2017, @09:35PM (#572171) Journal

    I'd say most times people don't put passwords on their private keys.

    It makes automated use of these signatures complex or impossible. Unattended things will fail or halt when you are not around to deal with it.

    You can use/add/change your passphrase any time you want, and it can be different on each machine holding your private key. The pgp private key is encrypted only locally, and the key itself is not affected.

    Ultimately, its not wise to put your un-encrypted private key on any machine you don't have sole control over. But I'd bet most people don't encrypt their private key at all.

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