Scott: In Firefox: When I click on the first link shown on the page with this URL < http://keyserver.ubuntu.com/pks/lookup?search=rutter%2C+michael&op=vindex>, I get taken to this URL < http://keyserver.ubuntu.com/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x51716619E084DAB9>.
I then select "Save Page As... from the File menu and select Text Files from the file-type selector and save as key.txt on my desktop. In Terminal: sudo apt-key add ~/Desktop/key.txt Note that the "save as text" function of Firefox yields (in key.txt) a file that begins thus Public Key Server -- Get ``0x51716619e084dab9 '' -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: SKS 1.0.10 mQENBEy9t On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Scott Raynaud <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
