Re: Archive signing key for 2007?
Hi,
On Fri Jan 19, 2007 at 13:01:45 +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> writes:
>
> > On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 11:51:21PM +0100, Javier Fern?ndez-Sanguino Pe?a wrote:
> >> I thought that the 2007 key was (based on [1]) supposed to be available
> >> early in January and available in the debian-archive-keyring package. Which
> >> doesn't seem to be the case.
> >
> > The key we'll be using (and indeed are already using) is available as:
> >
> > http://ftp-master.debian.org/archive-key-4.0.asc
> >
> > It's expected to be valid until sometime after lenny is released.
> >
> > If you've upgraded a testing/unstable system in the past month or two,
> > you'll find that key has been automatically added to your apt key list,
> > after being verified by the normal trust path for upgraded packages --
> > namely the current archive key you've been using, then the sha1sum of
> > the Packages file and finally the md5sum of the apt package containing
> > the updated key.
> >
> > Debian developers can obtain the key from merkel over ssh, by looking
> > in /srv/ftp.debian.org/web/archive-key-4.0.asc. The key id is 6070D3A1
> > which can be obtained from the key servers with signatures from both me
> > and Steve Langasek.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > aj
>
> Does that mean etch will not be signed by an offline key? Was stable
> ever signed with an offline key?
>
> I think signing stable with an online key without passphrase is a
> serious loss/lack of trustiness in it. It means that if the archive
> gets compromised then stable package can be replaced without apt
> noticing.
Stable will be signed by both, online and offline key. Also every point
release will be signed by both keys.
Greetings
Martin
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