PGP Verification: import import the public key failed [solved]

[xpetrl]

Hi,

I have trouble importing pgp public key
From documentation section 2.1.1.1. PGP Verification

Code:

gpg --keyserver sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys 0xC8D62DEF767C1DB0DFF4E6EC358EAA9112CF7946
gpg: keyserver receive failed: No keyserver available

any idea?

 

[Samuel Tai]

Check your networking. Do you have a default gateway and DNS servers defined?

 

[xpetrl]

Check your networking. Do you have a default gateway and DNS servers defined?

Yes, could be a problem, I'm on a crappy public Wifi network

Testing on a remote server using the same pgp command I receive:

Code:

gpg: keyserver receive failed: No data

 

[xpetrl]

is there another way to manual import a public key, i.e. fetching it from pgp.mit.edu ?

 

[Fredda]

Which version of FreeNAS are you running?

 

[Samuel Tai]

Looks like that key server no longer holds the FreeNAS key, so this is a documentation erratum.

 

[xpetrl]

Looks like that key server no longer holds the FreeNAS key, so this is a documentation erratum.

probably

One public key is available here, at pgp.mit.edu
PGP Public key (12CF7946)

But I couldn't find a way to import it

 

[xpetrl]

Which version of FreeNAS are you running?

I didn't install it yet, I'm looking to verify the downloaded iso, i.e. FreeNAS-11.3-U3.2.iso

 

[Fredda]

OK, now I get it. Last summer there was a big attack on the GPG keyservers, which rendered them basically useless and a lot of
keyservers went down.

SKS Keyserver Network Under Attack

SKS Keyserver Network Under Attack. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

gist.github.com

You can still go for the SHA256 checksum, if you want to verify the download.

 

[Fredda]

This one still seems to work:
gpg --keyserver hkps://keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 0xC8D62DEF767C1DB0DFF4E6EC358EAA9112CF7946

 

[xpetrl]

This one still seems to work:
gpg --keyserver hkps://keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 0xC8D62DEF767C1DB0DFF4E6EC358EAA9112CF7946

Fantastic, it worked.
Thank you!