On Wed, Feb 5, 2020 at 12:13 PM Neal Gompa <ngomp...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.

I don't see that being valuable enough to actually invest the effort
into doing it and maintaining it long term.  If others are interested
in hosting such a service, that would likely be welcome.

josh
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