GPG verification keys don't match

Norbert Preining norbert at preining.info
Sat Apr 11 02:48:07 CEST 2020


Hi,

On Fri, 10 Apr 2020, Mark Peloquin wrote:
> Since TeX Live is distributed over HTTP (at least the mirror closest to me), I thought I'd add signature verification to my update script. However, the signing key doesn't look right. I checked a mirror and the main ctan.org, and also a couple different .asc files. They both show 4CE1877E19438C70 as the public key:
> 
> gpg:                using RSA key 4CE1877E19438C70

> But this shows that it should be 0D5E5D9106BAB6BC:

0D5E5D9106BAB6BC = public key id
4CE1877E19438C70 = private sub key that does the signatures

As can easily be seen by doing 
	gpg --list-keys ID

$ gpg --list-keys 0x4CE1877E19438C70
pub   rsa2048/0x0D5E5D9106BAB6BC 2016-03-19 [SC]
      Key fingerprint = C78B 82D8 C795 12F7 9CC0  D7C8 0D5E 5D91 06BA B6BC
uid                   [  full  ] TeX Live Distribution <tex-live at tug.org>
sub   rsa2048/0x72A5E8C1B001980F 2016-03-19 [E]
sub   rsa2048/0x4CE1877E19438C70 2016-03-19 [S] [expires: 2021-07-30]

$ gpg --list-keys 0x0D5E5D9106BAB6BC
pub   rsa2048/0x0D5E5D9106BAB6BC 2016-03-19 [SC]
      Key fingerprint = C78B 82D8 C795 12F7 9CC0  D7C8 0D5E 5D91 06BA B6BC
uid                   [  full  ] TeX Live Distribution <tex-live at tug.org>
sub   rsa2048/0x72A5E8C1B001980F 2016-03-19 [E]
sub   rsa2048/0x4CE1877E19438C70 2016-03-19 [S] [expires: 2021-07-30]


Nothing incorrect here.

Norbert

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