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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

What can they do with a signing key?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

delicious buttery mails

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Pretend to be someone they aren't

An actor that can acquire a private signing key can then create falsified tokens with valid signatures that will be accepted by relying parties. This is called token forgery.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Oh cool so they can distribute updates?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The article just says they signed authentication tokens which gave them access to outlook emails. I don't think it was code signing that would let them distribute software, and that's not what they were after.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Thanks for actually reading the article o7