[R-sig-Debian] Secure apt

[Ian Gow]

Scott:

I have the same issue with the firewall.

My experience is that, after following Dirk's directions on the CRAN page for Debian/Ubuntu (http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/), sometimes the web search gets returned with :11371 embedded in the URL and that gets blocked too. My low-tech solution is as follows. 

After I go to http://keyserver.ubuntu.com and do a search, I get:

http://keyserver.ubuntu.com:11371/pks/lookup?search=rutter%2C+michael&op=vindex

So I edit out the 11371 to get

http://keyserver.ubuntu.com/pks/lookup?search=rutter%2C+michael&op=vindex

and from that I get a webpage looking like the text below (with hyperlinks for each "E084DAB9"). I can then click the top link, save the result as key.txt and then follow the directions on the CRAN Debian/Ubuntu page above.

(My previous low-low-tech solution was to pull up the page on my iPhone--with WiFi off--and email the text to myself. But the merely low-tech approach is less painful.)

-Ian

Result for http://keyserver.ubuntu.com/pks/lookup?search=rutter%2C+michael&op=vindex:

Search results for 'rutter michael'

Type bits/keyID    cr. time   exp time   key expir

pub  2048R/E084DAB9 2010-10-19            

uid Michael Rutter <marutter at gmail.com>
sig  sig3  E084DAB9 2010-10-19 __________ 2015-10-18 [selfsig]

sub  2048R/1CFF3E8F 2010-10-19            
sig sbind  E084DAB9 2010-10-19 __________ 2015-10-18 []



On Mar 18, 2012, at 9:39 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:

> 
> On 18 March 2012 at 06:25, Scott Raynaud wrote:
> | I am trying to add Michael Rutter's ppa to my
> | repository.  I cannot do this from the command
> | line.  I think I may be behind a firewall so copying
> | the key to a text file is my best option.  When I
> | search for the key at 
> | 
> | http://keyserver.ubuntu.com:11371/
> | 
> | the search fails.  Tried typing and 
> | cutting and pasting E084DAB9 into 
> | the search box without success.  How 
> | can I get the key?
> 
> By reading up on the underlying 'web of trust' initially built around PGP,
> and later GPG which is used here too.  The idiomatic approach is to do a 
> 'gpg --search ....' where you also need to specify a server:
> 
>  edd at max:~$ gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --search-key E084DAB9 
>  gpg: searching for "E084DAB9" from hkp server pgp.mit.edu
>  (1)     Michael Rutter <marutter at gmail.com>
>            2048 bit RSA key E084DAB9, created: 2010-10-19
>  Keys 1-1 of 1 for "E084DAB9".  Enter number(s), N)ext, or Q)uit > n
>  Enter number(s), N)ext, or Q)uit > 1
>  gpg: requesting key E084DAB9 from hkp server pgp.mit.edu
>  gpg: key E084DAB9: public key "Michael Rutter <marutter at gmail.com>" imported
>  gpg: Total number processed: 1
>  gpg:               imported: 1  (RSA: 1)
>  edd at max:~$ 
> 
> 
> Dirk
> 
> -- 
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