Julian, I'm afraid that for better or worse Launchpad did generate
1024-bit RSA keys for PPAs for quite some time, and that wasn't an
entirely silly decision back when it was first made - even then DSA had
known weaknesses.  It's a problem, but as you say we'd need to work out
a rollover mechanism.  Signing with two keys is certainly a possibility
(we did that with the Ubuntu archive for a while, so it's battle-
tested), and I expect that any solution to this would involve that, but
there's no clear way to end the transition.

Bob, I'm afraid that your proposed "simple" workaround is no such thing
(a naive implementation would expose launchpad.net to XSS attacks from
user-supplied content on ppa.launchpad.net).  I listed the issues that
would need to be solved in bug 1473091.  Anyway, TLS is a side issue
here and this bug shouldn't be derailed into that.

We are very unlikely to do any of the proposed renaming/mirroring hacks;
they would be a mess and likely a cure worse than the disease.

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