Things look a little different when I try to do this from my virtual machine at work. When I remove the 11371 an conduct the search again I get:
xt/html; charset=UTF-8 Age: 47 X-Cache: HIT from boquila.canonical.com X-Cache-Lookup: HIT from boquila.canonical.com:11371 Via: 1.0 boquila.canonical.com:11371 (squid/2.7.STABLE7), 1.0 localhost.localdomain Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 19:23:16 GMT Content-Length: 139 <html><head><title>Page not found</title></head> <body><h1>Page not found</h1>Page not found: /var/lib/sks/www/favicon.ico</body></html> HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: sks_www/1.0.10 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Age: 53 X-Cache: HIT from boquila.canonical.com X-Cache-Lookup: HIT from boquila.canonical.com:11371 Via: 1.0 boquila.canonical.com:11371 (squid/2.7.STABLE7), 1.0 localhost.localdomain Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 19:23:27 GMT Content-Length: 1903 <html><head><title>Public Key Server -- Get ``0x51716619e084dab9 ''</title></head> <body><h1>Public Key Server -- Get ``0x51716619e084dab9 ''</h1> <pre> -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: SKS 1.0.10 -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- </pre> </body></html> where the key string appear between the begin and end statements. Should I put all or part of this into the key.txt file? ----- Original Message ----- From: Ian Gow <[email protected]> To: Scott Raynaud <[email protected]> Cc: Dirk Eddelbuettel <[email protected]>; "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2012 12:50 PM Subject: Re: [R-sig-Debian] Secure apt The whole thing if I recall correctly. Sent from my iPhone On Mar 18, 2012, at 1:19 PM, Scott Raynaud <[email protected]> wrote: > Ian: > > Thanks. When I click on the first hyperlink for E084DAB9 > > I get a file that looks like this: > Public Key Server -- Get ``0x51716619e084dab9 '' > -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- > Version: SKS 1.0.10 > > > > -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- > > with a long string of characters in between > the BEGIN and END lines. Can you confirm > which part of this I need to include in my > text file? > > Thanks. > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Ian Gow <[email protected]> > To: Dirk Eddelbuettel <[email protected]> > Cc: Scott Raynaud <[email protected]>; "[email protected]" > <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2012 9:51 AM > Subject: Re: [R-sig-Debian] Secure apt > > Scott: > > I have the same issue with the firewall. > > My experience is that, after following Dirk's directions on the CRAN page for > Debian/Ubuntu (http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/), sometimes the > web search gets returned with :11371 embedded in the URL and that gets > blocked too. My low-tech solution is as follows. > > After I go to http://keyserver.ubuntu.com and do a search, I get: > > http://keyserver.ubuntu.com:11371/pks/lookup?search=rutter%2C+michael&op=vindex > > So I edit out the 11371 to get > > http://keyserver.ubuntu.com/pks/lookup?search=rutter%2C+michael&op=vindex > > and from that I get a webpage looking like the text below (with hyperlinks > for each "E084DAB9"). I can then click the top link, save the result as > key.txt and then follow the directions on the CRAN Debian/Ubuntu page above. > > (My previous low-low-tech solution was to pull up the page on my iPhone--with > WiFi off--and email the text to myself. But the merely low-tech approach is > less painful.) > > -Ian > > Result for > http://keyserver.ubuntu.com/pks/lookup?search=rutter%2C+michael&op=vindex: > > Search results for 'rutter michael' > > Type bits/keyID cr. time exp time key expir > > pub 2048R/E084DAB9 2010-10-19 > > uid Michael Rutter <[email protected]> > sig sig3 E084DAB9 2010-10-19 __________ 2015-10-18 [selfsig] > > sub 2048R/1CFF3E8F 2010-10-19 > sig sbind E084DAB9 2010-10-19 __________ 2015-10-18 [] > > > > On Mar 18, 2012, at 9:39 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > >> >> On 18 March 2012 at 06:25, Scott Raynaud wrote: >> | I am trying to add Michael Rutter's ppa to my >> | repository. I cannot do this from the command >> | line. I think I may be behind a firewall so copying >> | the key to a text file is my best option. When I >> | search for the key at >> | >> | http://keyserver.ubuntu.com:11371/ >> | >> | the search fails. Tried typing and >> | cutting and pasting E084DAB9 into >> | the search box without success. How >> | can I get the key? >> >> By reading up on the underlying 'web of trust' initially built around PGP, >> and later GPG which is used here too. The idiomatic approach is to do a >> 'gpg --search ....' where you also need to specify a server: >> >> edd@max:~$ gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --search-key E084DAB9 >> gpg: searching for "E084DAB9" from hkp server pgp.mit.edu >> (1) Michael Rutter <[email protected]> >> 2048 bit RSA key E084DAB9, created: 2010-10-19 >> Keys 1-1 of 1 for "E084DAB9". Enter number(s), N)ext, or Q)uit > n >> Enter number(s), N)ext, or Q)uit > 1 >> gpg: requesting key E084DAB9 from hkp server pgp.mit.edu >> gpg: key E084DAB9: public key "Michael Rutter <[email protected]>" imported >> gpg: Total number processed: 1 >> gpg: imported: 1 (RSA: 1) >> edd@max:~$ >> >> >> Dirk >> >> -- >> "Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it is too >> dark to read." -- Groucho Marx >> >> _______________________________________________ >> R-SIG-Debian mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
