Re: verifying archive signature keys?

On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 10:54:02AM +0200, Hadmut Danisch wrote:
> Hi,
>
> just a question because someone had asked me for help. The problem was
> that apt-get update had complained about not beeing able to verify
> signatures due to a missing pgp key.
>
> Was easy to tell to do
> gpg --recv-key A70DAF536070D3A1
> gpg -a --export A70DAF536070D3A1 | sudo apt-key add -
>
>
>
> but: How would one verify that this key is the correct debian
> key (and not, e.g. the key used by an intruder to fake packages and
> simply uploaded to public key repositories)?
>
>
> gpg --check-sigs A70DAF536070D3A1
>
> lists some signatures of several people, but none that I personally
> know, I don't even know whether these people actually exist.
>
> So what's the official way to verify debian archives?

I'm not sure if it's official, but I've seen a section on that topic on debian wiki IIRC.

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