[BLU/Officers] MIT key server appears to be down

[John Abreau]

I've updated the scripts to use the keyserver at keys.gnupg.net, and it's
working now.

On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 4:21 PM Bill Ricker <bill.n1vux at gmail.com> wrote:

> Due to an attack, use of public keyservers for finding key by email
> address are generally discouraged now anyway, so I'm not surprised
> PGP.MIT.EDU is down, it would have been key attack surface for flooding
> the world with fake certs for an email address.
>
> Will keys.gnupg.net work for our registration?
>
> On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 2:39 PM Jerry Feldman <gaf.linux at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> pgp.mit.edu does not appear to be working. When I registered my key it
>> returned an error on the BLU website. I went directly to the key server
>> website and it also could not look up my key. "The server is temporarily
>> unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity
>> problems. Please try again later".
>>
>> http://keys.gnupg.net/ works fine.
>>
>> --
>> --
>> Jerry Feldman <gaf.linux at gmail.com>
>> Boston Linux and Unix
>> PGP key id: 6F6BB6E7
>> Key fingerprint: 0EDC 2FF5 53A6 8EED 84D1  3050 5715 B88D 6F6B B6E7
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