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Re:A thorough PGP tutorial by rmoriz on Sunday July 07, 2013 @08:38PM (#6004339)
that's possible with PGP, too, if you don't verificate key in person. E.g. "hey Alice, I lost my passphrase, please use the attached key or ID xxxx on one of the keyservers"

It's even easier to do, because you don't have to trick a CA in creating a duplicate key.

Re:A thorough PGP tutorial by ncraike on Sunday July 07, 2013 @08:54PM (#6004407)
> It's even easier to do, because you don't have to trick a CA in creating a duplicate key.

In some ways it's easier with PGP, yes.

But in some ways relying on a possibly-hostile CA is worse: if the software doesn't really give the user any visibility of key changes, then the impersonator won't even need to social-engineer the recipient with "whoops I lost my key". Instead, the duped recipient will just see "Signed by Big Trusted CA" with a shiny green padlock, and will think everything is fine, even though the key under the hood has changed.