Re: Finding a “good” OpenPGP key server

[Tanguy LE CARROUR <tanguy@bioneland.org>]

Hi Ludo’,


Quoting Ludovic Courtès (2022-05-30 17:34:43)
> Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be> skribis:
> 
> > Ludovic Courtès schreef op ma 18-04-2022 om 22:24 [+0200]:
> >> [... guix refresh -u stuff failing due to not finding the key ...]
> >> I’m not sure what a good solution is (other than looking for the key
> >> manually on Savannah or on some random key server).
> >
> > Alternatively, why use key servers at all?  WDYT of something like
> >
> > (package
> >   (name "gnurl")
> >   [...]
> >   (properties
> >     ;; Keys that are considered ‘trustworthy’ for signing releases
> >     ;; of gnurl.
> >     `((permitted-pgp-signing-keys "CABB A99E ..." "DEAD BEEF ...")
> >       ;; Locations of PGP key (possibly with some of them pointing to
> >       ;; the same key)
> >       (pgp-key-locations
> >         ,(savannah-pgp-key USER-ID) ... ; most signers are on savannah.gnu.org
> >         ,(local-file "[...]/someone.pub") ; not easily available from the Web               
> >         "https://rando/key.pub"
> >         "ipfs://.../..." "gnunet://...")))) ; download key via P2P networks
> >
> > The first part (permitted-pgp-signing-keys) has been suggested previously and
> > seems mostly orthogonal, but the second part is new.  It would reduce
> > the dependency on central infrastructure.  We could consider key servers
> > to be ‘merely’ another fallback.
> 
> We could also have our own key server.  Just like ‘guix lint -c
> archival’ triggers SWH archival, we could have a tool that triggers key
> download on the server so that crypto material never vanishes.

That would be a solution, I guess. But what would be the cost of setting
it up and maintaining it?
Is gnurl the only package with this problem or is it something that happens often?!

Regards,

-- 
Tanguy