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Mention the new Secure Contact Key in the GPG docs appendix.
The reporter of vuln-pscp-sink-sscanf asked for a key to encrypt the vulnerability report with, and having generated one, it seemed like a good idea to make it part of the official PuTTY GPG key set and publish it for the next person to use.
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\H{pgpkeys-pubkey} Public keys
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We maintain a set of three keys, stored with different levels of
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security due to being used in different ways. See \k{pgpkeys-security}
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below for details.
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We maintain multiple keys, stored with different levels of security
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due to being used in different ways. See \k{pgpkeys-security} below
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for details.
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The three keys we provide are:
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The keys we provide are:
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\dt Snapshot Key
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@ -38,15 +38,20 @@ we send to particular users.
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\dd Used to sign manually released versions of PuTTY.
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\dt Secure Contact Key
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\dd An encryption-capable key suitable for people to send confidential
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messages to the PuTTY team, e.g. reports of vulnerabilities.
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\dt Master Key
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\dd Used to tie the other two keys into the GPG web of trust. The
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Master Key signs the other two keys, and other GPG users have signed
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\dd Used to tie all the above keys into the GPG web of trust. The
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Master Key signs all the other keys, and other GPG users have signed
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it in turn.
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The current issue of those three keys are available for download from
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the PuTTY website, and are also available on PGP keyservers using the
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key IDs listed below.
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The current issue of those keys are available for download from the
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PuTTY website, and are also available on PGP keyservers using the key
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IDs listed below.
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\dt \W{http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/keys/master-2015.asc}{\s{Master Key}}
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\cw{2048R/9DFE2648B43434E4}). Fingerprint:
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\cw{0054\_DDAA\_8ADA\_15D2\_768A\_\_6DE7\_9DFE\_2648\_B434\_34E4}
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\dt \W{http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/keys/contact-2016.asc}{\s{Secure Contact Key}}
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\dd RSA, 2048-bit. Main key ID: \cw{2048R/8A0AF00B} (long version:
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\cw{2048R/C4FCAAD08A0AF00B}). Encryption subkey ID:
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\cw{2048R/50C2CF5C} (long version: \cw{2048R/9EB39CC150C2CF5C}.
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Fingerprint:
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\cw{8A26\_250E\_763F\_E359\_75F3\_\_118F\_C4FC\_AAD0\_8A0A\_F00B}
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\dt \W{http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/keys/snapshot-2015.asc}{\s{Snapshot Key}}
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\dd RSA, 2048-bit. Key ID: \cw{2048R/D15F7E8A} (long version:
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@ -115,6 +128,12 @@ The Releases private key is kept encrypted on the developers' own
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local machines. So an attacker wanting to steal it would have to also
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steal the passphrase.
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\S{pgpkeys-contact} The Secure Contact Key
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The Secure Contact Key is stored with a similar level of security to
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the Release Key: it is stored with a passphrase, and no automated
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script has access to it.
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\S{pgpkeys-master} The Master Keys
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The Master Key signs almost nothing. Its purpose is to bind the other
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\H{pgpkeys-rollover} Key rollover
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Our current three keys were generated in September 2015. Prior to
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that, we had a much older set of keys generated in 2000. For each of
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the three key types above, we provided both an RSA key \e{and} a DSA
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key (because at the time we generated them, RSA was not in practice
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available to everyone, due to export restrictions).
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Our current keys were generated in September 2015, except for the
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Secure Contact Key which was generated in February 2016 (we didn't
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think of it until later).
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Prior to that, we had a much older set of keys generated in 2000. For
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each of the key types above (other than the Secure Contact Key), we
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provided both an RSA key \e{and} a DSA key (because at the time we
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generated them, RSA was not in practice available to everyone, due to
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export restrictions).
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The new Master Key is signed with both of the old ones, to show that
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it really is owned by the same people and not substituted by an
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