[R-sig-Debian] getting the Debian pgp key

[Johannes Ranke]

* Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> [070320 03:30]:
> 
> On 19 March 2007 at 15:45, Anne York wrote:
> | I've tried to obtain the public key as described in the 
> | README file in bin/linux/Debian on CRAN. The server 
> | specified in the README times out. The mit public key 
> | server responds that there is no such key.
> 
> Based on the last messages by Johannes and Vincent, I would expect these
> files to be on all CRAN mirrors. Maybe you can just try a different one?
 
I am not sure if it makes sense to put the keys on the mirrors. If they
should be compromised, the keys could be compromised, too, so I would
think it's better to only provide them from an independent source as the 
keyserver network. 

As Vincent, I was just able to receive the keys with the given command
from the keyservers, no timeout. Could you please report, Anne, if the
server still times out and if you could solve your problem?

Of course, Vincent is right, you can also choose to trust the CRAN
servers and ignore the warning, that the key is not on your system.

Johannes


> Dirk
> 
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