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Re: [Sks-devel] Making keys unusable with spamming similar uids


From: Valentin Sundermann
Subject: Re: [Sks-devel] Making keys unusable with spamming similar uids
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 11:26:16 +0200

> as per evil32's demo of 32bit key dupes it's possible to flood these,
> but it costs cpu, and even so you can search the keyid-format long value
> 
> eg;
> 0x1992274E129BAF74
I only thought of same name, email and comment. Searching with the
short/long id and the fingerprint would be still possible.
And yeah, if one wants to make the short id unusable too, it's possible
to generate keys with that id (although it costs more cpu as you already
stated).

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