Comments on: Deploying a PGP SKS server on Ubuntu 18.04 https://blog.plip.com/2018/06/29/deploying-a-pgp-sks-server-on-ubuntu-18-04/ Sat, 27 Aug 2022 22:05:07 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: mrjones https://blog.plip.com/2018/06/29/deploying-a-pgp-sks-server-on-ubuntu-18-04/#comment-23337 Sat, 27 Aug 2022 22:05:07 +0000 https://blog.plip.com/?p=2106#comment-23337 In reply to James Pharaoh.

James –

Thanks for your comment! It looks like you’re right.

I would update the instructions per your suggestion, but looking at the content on keys.niif.hu, I’m embarrassed to see that Anon from 2 years ago was right – content on keys.niif.hu is garbage! Apparently it’s ASCII art of the Hungarian saying, “de nagy az isten allatkertje”!?! I very much feel like I’m missing some larger context here. These are not they droids you’re looking for. But, oh, well, moving on!

To fix this, we need to look at the key servers on the GitHub page, unfortunately most of which are also not working (no DNS entry or no http server on the IP returned). The only one I found to be working is https://mirror.cyberbits.eu/sks/dump/. I’ve updated the post to reflect these latest updates.

Thanks so much for your note! It’s great to keep this content current. Though, I feel like the relevancy of PGP these days is becoming less and less :(

]]> By: James Pharaoh https://blog.plip.com/2018/06/29/deploying-a-pgp-sks-server-on-ubuntu-18-04/#comment-23335 Sat, 27 Aug 2022 11:16:18 +0000 https://blog.plip.com/?p=2106#comment-23335 I think the command to move the downloaded files is wrong. I get the following error:

/var/lib/sks/dump # mv keys.niif.hu/keydump/*pgp .
mv: cannot stat ‘keys.niif.hu/keydump/*pgp’: No such file or directory

Instead, the glob should presumably include the “.xz” extension, also it probably could have a “.” before “pgp”, so something like this:

/var/lib/sks/dump # mv keys.niif.hu/keydump/*.pgp.xz .

]]> By: mrjones https://blog.plip.com/2018/06/29/deploying-a-pgp-sks-server-on-ubuntu-18-04/#comment-14404 Mon, 28 Sep 2020 00:32:19 +0000 https://blog.plip.com/?p=2106#comment-14404 In reply to Ann Nonymous.

Anon – oh, cool – thanks for the tip!

]]> By: Ann Nonymous https://blog.plip.com/2018/06/29/deploying-a-pgp-sks-server-on-ubuntu-18-04/#comment-14320 Tue, 08 Sep 2020 18:54:29 +0000 https://blog.plip.com/?p=2106#comment-14320 In reply to mrjones.

You might also want to provide some current/alternate dump sources. I found the one mentioned @ https://keys.niif.hu/keydump/ to be an unverifiable train wreck today and am now re-attempting to re-download from an alternate source @ https://pgp.key-server.io/dump/current/

]]> By: mrjones https://blog.plip.com/2018/06/29/deploying-a-pgp-sks-server-on-ubuntu-18-04/#comment-14270 Tue, 25 Aug 2020 04:57:29 +0000 https://blog.plip.com/?p=2106#comment-14270 In reply to Dan.

Dan – oh yeah, indeed it’s all moved over to GitHub (https://github.com/SKS-Keyserver/sks-keyserver). I’ve updated the article to reflect the new URL. Thanks very much for letting me know!

]]> By: Dan https://blog.plip.com/2018/06/29/deploying-a-pgp-sks-server-on-ubuntu-18-04/#comment-14265 Mon, 24 Aug 2020 02:46:36 +0000 https://blog.plip.com/?p=2106#comment-14265 Love the article, but your list of servers at bitbucket is dead. Bitbucket no longer supports Mercurial repositories.

]]> By: mrjones https://blog.plip.com/2018/06/29/deploying-a-pgp-sks-server-on-ubuntu-18-04/#comment-12724 Tue, 15 Oct 2019 20:40:44 +0000 https://blog.plip.com/?p=2106#comment-12724 In reply to Jeff.

Jeff – awesome – thanks for the tip! I’ve updated the post accordingly.

]]> By: Jeff https://blog.plip.com/2018/06/29/deploying-a-pgp-sks-server-on-ubuntu-18-04/#comment-12723 Tue, 15 Oct 2019 20:20:42 +0000 https://blog.plip.com/?p=2106#comment-12723 Great article, but one small update.

keys.niif.hu is currently using unxz and not bunzip2.

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