Launchpad could *automatically* create a mirror of any PPA that still uses a 1024 bit key, with a standard suffix to the name, eg xyzppa gets mirrored as xyzppa-newkey. It could then link to it from the page for the original PPA. It would always have all the same source, built files and other content, and the content would only need to be stored once on the server. It would just be a different way of accessing the same PPA.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to apt in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1461834 Title: 1024-bit signing keys should be deprecated Status in Launchpad itself: New Status in apt package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: 1024-bit RSA was deprecated years ago by NIST[1], Microsoft[2] and more recently by others[3]. 1024-bit signing keys are insufficient to guarantee the authenticity of software distributed from Launchpad.net including PPAs. There should be a mechanism to refuse signing keys below a minimum key length based on key type. 1024-bit signing keys should be deprecated and removed from Launchpad.net itself ASAP. Future projects and PPAs should be disallowed from using 1024-bit signing keys. 1. http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-131A/sp800-131A.pdf 2. http://blogs.technet.com/b/pki/archive/2012/06/12/rsa-keys-under-1024-bits-are-blocked.aspx 3. https://threatpost.com/mozilla-1024-bit-cert-deprecation-leaves-107000-sites-untrusted/108114 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad/+bug/1461834/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
