[BLU/Officers] GPG1 Re: MIT key server appears to be down

[Bill Ricker]

Alas the registration page is still using GPG1 (or 2.0?) so can't register
GPG2.1 Ed25519 signing key :-/

Let's fix that before *next* year. *sigh*

On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 10:19 PM John Abreau <abreauj at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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>>
>>
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>> Bill Ricker
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>
>
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> John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix
> Email: abreauj at gmail.com / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID
> 0x920063C6
> PGP-Key-Fingerprint A5AD 6BE1 FEFE 8E4F 5C23  C2D0 E885 E17C 9200 63C6
>
>

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Bill Ricker
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