Scott:

In Firefox:
When I click on the first link shown on the page with this URL <
http://keyserver.ubuntu.com/pks/lookup?search=rutter%2C+michael&op=vindex>, I
get taken to this URL <
http://keyserver.ubuntu.com/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x51716619E084DAB9>.

I then select "Save Page As... from the File menu and select Text Files
from the file-type selector and save as key.txt on my desktop.

In Terminal:
sudo apt-key add ~/Desktop/key.txt

Note that the "save as text" function of Firefox yields (in key.txt) a file
that begins thus

  Public Key Server -- Get ``0x51716619e084dab9 ''

-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Version: SKS 1.0.10

mQENBEy9t



On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Scott Raynaud <scott.raynaud@yahoo.com>wrote:

> Things look a little different when I try to do this from my
> virtual machine at work.  When I remove the 11371 an
> conduct the search again I get:
>
> xt/html; charset=UTF-8
> Age: 47
> X-Cache: HIT from boquila.canonical.com
> X-Cache-Lookup: HIT from boquila.canonical.com:11371
> Via: 1.0 boquila.canonical.com:11371 (squid/2.7.STABLE7), 1.0
> localhost.localdomain
> Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 19:23:16 GMT
> Content-Length: 139
>
> <html><head><title>Page not found</title></head>
> <body><h1>Page not found</h1>Page not found:
> /var/lib/sks/www/favicon.ico</body></html>
> HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> Server: sks_www/1.0.10
> Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
> Age: 53
> X-Cache: HIT from boquila.canonical.com
> X-Cache-Lookup: HIT from boquila.canonical.com:11371
> Via: 1.0 boquila.canonical.com:11371 (squid/2.7.STABLE7), 1.0
> localhost.localdomain
> Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 19:23:27 GMT
> Content-Length: 1903
>
> <html><head><title>Public Key Server -- Get ``0x51716619e084dab9
> ''</title></head>
> <body><h1>Public Key Server -- Get ``0x51716619e084dab9 ''</h1>
> <pre>
> -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
> Version: SKS 1.0.10
>
>
> -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
> </pre>
> </body></html>
>
>
> where the key string appear between the
> begin and end statements.  Should I put
> all or part of this into the key.txt file?
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Ian Gow <iandgow@gmail.com>
> To: Scott Raynaud <scott.raynaud@yahoo.com>
> Cc: Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>; "r-sig-debian@r-project.org" <
> r-sig-debian@r-project.org>
> Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2012 12:50 PM
> Subject: Re: [R-sig-Debian] Secure apt
>
> The whole thing if I recall correctly.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Mar 18, 2012, at 1:19 PM, Scott Raynaud <scott.raynaud@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Ian:
> >
> > Thanks.  When I click on the first hyperlink for E084DAB9
> >
> > I get a file that looks like this:
> > Public Key Server -- Get ``0x51716619e084dab9 ''
> > -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
> > Version: SKS 1.0.10
> >
> >
> >
> > -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
> >
> > with a long string of characters in between
> > the BEGIN and END lines.  Can you confirm
> > which part of this I need to include in my
> > text file?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Ian Gow <iandgow@gmail.com>
> > To: Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>
> > Cc: Scott Raynaud <scott.raynaud@yahoo.com>; "r-sig-debian@r-project.org"
> <r-sig-debian@r-project.org>
> > Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2012 9:51 AM
> > Subject: Re: [R-sig-Debian] Secure apt
> >
> > 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@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@max:~$ gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --search-key E084DAB9
> >>  gpg: searching for "E084DAB9" from hkp server pgp.mit.edu
> >>  (1)    Michael Rutter <marutter@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@gmail.com>"
> imported
> >>  gpg: Total number processed: 1
> >>  gpg:              imported: 1  (RSA: 1)
> >>  edd@max:~$
> >>
> >>
> >> Dirk
> >>
> >> --
> >> "Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it
> is too
> >> dark to read." -- Groucho Marx
> >>
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>
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