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 :(

/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 .

Anon – oh, cool – thanks for the tip!

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/

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!

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

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