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If that were true, potentially every intelligence agency on earth would have a copy and it would defeat the purpose of it since anyone could spoof gps signals. It seems entirely within Europe’s interest to keep it out of any other agency’s hands as it would defeat the purpose of it.


These sorts of agencies have a habit of getting their hands on things that other people didn't intend them to.


Well, hopefully they get into a habit of routinely rotating the key.


Would that not break your system though? I admit my lack of knowledge in public key infrastructure.


I just checked and it looks like[1] this happens at least once a year, specifically to guard against this kind of attack. It doesn’t break the chain of hashes though.

1: https://www.euspa.europa.eu/sites/default/files/calls_for_pr...




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