Comment 9 for bug 857472

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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote :

Hello Colin, thanks for your comment on this.

I'm not sure I quite follow the comment, the code is meant to check the following:
  for every key we got from the network, check if the same keyid is also in the master-keyring
    if that is the case -> abort as this clearly indicates that something fishy is going on

AFAICS this closes the attack vector described in the full-disclosure list as the attacker will not be
able to "shadow" our master-key-id anymore with the key id duplication.

For am I missing something and/or made a mistake in the code so that I actually check for the wrong thing?