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Cicadas & Security, Part 2: When a Verified PGP Key Takes You on a Trip to the Desert

Toni Noble, 2017. Threat Stack blog, 19 April 2017.

A security engineer's walk-through of verifying Cicada's signatures. Quotes the first signed message of January 2012, "From here on out, we will cryptographically sign all messages with this key", gives the key's full fingerprint and explains why the short key ID alone can be faked.

MYS0D7R6VX63T6S · mystery · click to copyMCicada 3301Web pageChecked against the original0

What it's used for here

Source for Cicada's commitment to sign every message and for the verification procedure.

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Noble, T. (2017). Cicadas & Security, Part 2: When a Verified PGP Key Takes You on a Trip to the Desert. Threat Stack blog, 19 April 2017. https://blog.threatstack.com/cicadas-security-part-2-when-a-verified-pgp-key-takes-you-on-a-trip-to-the-desert
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