On Sun, 10 Feb 2019 at 09:37, Matt Sicker <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Is it possible to support more than just MIT’s pgp server? Other mirrors
> might be more reliable.

The home.a,o public key files app [1] uses
hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net which is a pool of key servers.
However even this is not 100% reliable.
Sometimes a key will not be found, even though it is really there.

[1] http://home.apache.org/keys/
> On Sat, Feb 9, 2019 at 07:07, Shane Curcuru <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Can;'t type enough for code yet, but miss coding, so... ideas:
> >
> > When verifying zig, you want workbench to:
> >
> > - IF we get here: (i.e. there was an error gettign key)
> >
> > https://github.com/apache/whimsy/blob/master/www/secretary/workbench/views/actions/check-signature.json.rb#L40
> >
> > - And if
> >     err.include? "gpg: Can't check signature: No public key" or
> >     err.include? "gpg: Can't check signature: public key not found"
> >
> > - Then Do: enable the action that sends pubkey.erb (so you can push the
> > button - or do you want it to automatically send that upload email)?
> >
> > - ELSE: (other error like proxy/timeout)
> >   - Disable the pubkey.erb
> >   - Allow the Secretary to re-process the check sig action.
> >
> > Do you want it to simply give you the button to immediately re-chceck
> > for the key, or do you want to leave this whole msg and come back later?
> >
> > --
> >
> > - Shane
> >   Director & Member
> >   The Apache Software Foundation
> >
> > Craig Russell wrote on 2/8/19 8:18 PM:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > When a document has an associated .asc file, whimsy automatically tries
> > to download the public key in order to verify the signature.
> > >
> > > But the key server is often busy and just cannot service the request
> > timely.
> > >
> > > The current behavior of whimsy does not distinguish among at least three
> > cases:
> > >
> > > No key found
> > > Timeout
> > > Proxy error
> > >
> > > No key found is the only case where the secretary should send the
> > "upload public key" message to the submitter.
> > >
> > > In the other two cases, the secretary should retry (later) until a
> > definitive No key found error is received or the public key is downloaded.
> > >
> > > Can the actual error be extracted from the message to avoid confusion?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Craig
> > >
> > > Craig L Russell
> > > Secretary, Apache Software Foundation
> > > [email protected] http://db.apache.org/jdo
> > >
> >
> > --
> Matt Sicker <[email protected]>

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