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

[John Abreau]

The script to register the key uses the key id to pull the key from the
designated key server and saves it to the keyring in the keysigning
directory, then runs make(1) against a makefile that extracts all keys on
the keyring and generates the html table in a file that gets included by
the php page.

It generally takes more than a few seconds for the process to complete; I
haven't tried to time it. I imagine the network latency from pulling the
key from the key server is probably the biggest bottleneck.

I set up a testing copy of the key registration that uses gpg2, but I
didn't want to risk step on the live registration page while someone was
adding a key, so I plan to put it in place after tonight. I briefly looked
at how to generate an ECC key, but it seems there are several different
cyphers and some disagreement over which one to choose, and I didn't have
time to spend hours this morning figuring it out, so I deferred that until
after tonight's meeting as well.



On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 3:55 PM Bill Ricker <bill.n1vux at gmail.com> wrote:

> And in addition, the keyserver has percolation issues, it's not available
> for retrieval immediately.
> But at least my RSA keys eventually registered.
>
> (I have confirmed that querying for the Ed25519 key fails with GPG1 and
> works with GPG2 CLI.
>  I may bring slips for my GPG2 Ed25519's ...)
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 3:25 PM Bill Ricker <bill.n1vux at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 3:10 PM Bill Ricker <bill.n1vux at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 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*
>>>
>>
>> Or perhaps not, I uploaded a GPG 4096 RSA key to keys.gnupg.net and reg
>> page says
>>
>> 186B9D4A NOT registered; gpg returned 2
>> SO IDK WTF ?  Would be nice if I had a key ...
>>
>>
>>
>
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