Where's ubuntu's public key(s)?
Richard Hubbell
richard.hubbell at gmail.com
Thu Jun 30 14:47:15 UTC 2005
On 6/30/05, Magnus Therning <magnus at therning.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 09:18:35PM -0700, Richard Hubbell wrote:
> >Where's ubuntu's public key(s)?
>
> If you mean the public part of the keys used to sign Ubuntu's packages,
> then they can be found in most keyservers. I use subkeys.pgp.net.
Strange they don't have them on their own site.
>
> If you have a Ubuntu system you should already have all the keys you
> need registered for use with apt-get. You can use apt-key to check what
> keys are trusted by apt.
>
> Any particular reason why you need them?
After downloading the iso I like to confirm with gpg --verify.
What else would one do with them? What'd you have in mind?
What do you usually use them for?
Thanks,
Richard
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