Which signature to use?

Shatadal shatadal at vfemail.net
Fri Feb 4 08:07:40 UTC 2005


Peter Palfrader wrote:
> On Fri, 04 Feb 2005, Shatadal wrote:
> 
> 
>>Roger Dingledine wrote:
>>
>>>On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 01:14:59AM -0600, Shatadal wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>This is probably a stupid question but which public key do I use for 
>>>>verifying the download? I downloaded your keys from keyserver.net but 
>>>
>>>
>>>http://wiki.noreply.org/wiki/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ#DistSignatures
>>>
>>>Let me know if I can make that answer more useful.
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>--Roger
>>
>>I could get your key off keyserver.net and I imported it into my keyring 
>>but I did not get Nick's (0x165733EA) of the keyserver.
> 
> 
> Avoid keyserver.net, it's broken.  Please use subkeys.pgp.net, which is
> a rotation of non-sucking HKP servers (well, one actually), and sks
> servers, that properly handle more than one subkey, photo ids (the sks
> ones at least), lookup by subkey, and actually are synced with the rest
> of the keyserver network, as opposed to keyserver.net which isn't.
> 

Thanks,

The SKS server given in the page mentioned by Roger retrieved Nick's 
key, which, it turns out, was used for the signing.



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