On Wed, Feb 5, 2020 at 11:57 AM Stephen John Smoogen <smo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Fedora has been part of an GPG sks service[1] for a number of years running > off of keys.fedoraproject.org. Last year, there were a number of attacks made > on the service which due to its 'write-only' nature makes it impossible to > clean up [2] [3]. When the attacks came up, and it was clear it was not > easily fixable, we moved keys to a proxy only mode. However this mode has not > been too stable and caused other issues. > > Fedora Infrastructure has tried to figure out ways to run a service > replacement, but currently has not found one which we can with the resources > we have available. We plan to turn off and decommission > keys.fedoraproject.org on 2020-02-10. > > We currently recommend people to use https://keys.openpgp.org/ which offers > lookup capabilities. > > [1] https://bitbucket.org/skskeyserver/sks-keyserver/wiki/Home > [2] https://gist.github.com/rjhansen/67ab921ffb4084c865b3618d6955275f > [3] > https://www.zdnet.com/article/openpgp-flooded-with-spam-by-unknown-hackers/ >
We may want to replace it with a simple Web Key Directory server: https://wiki.gnupg.org/WKD That would make it easy to lookup keys based on @fedoraproject.org email addresses, and since keys can be replaced in the directory, it avoids the problems with SKS attacks. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
