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Discussion => Newbie discussion => Topic started by: astral on April 20, 2013, 07:09 am

Title: DPR's pub key
Post by: astral on April 20, 2013, 07:09 am

Where is Dread Pirate Rober's public PGP key?  I did look a little on the SR site before the site was taken down, so it's possible it's there someplace that I didn't look yet.  Searches in this forum, including the pinned PGP key topic, aren't finding it (but that search is made difficult by 114-page topics and simplistic search engine).

To me, it seems crazy for DPR to go through the trouble to religiously sign all of his posts without giving some hint about how to locate the key needed to make any use of those signatures.  In a typical case I could search key servers for the owner's full name or email addr, but in this case, for understandable reasons, DPR's profile shows neither real name or an email addr.  (I do see dread_pirate_roberts@softhome.net listed in the public keyservers, but that seems to not be our DPR, since GnuPG reports that it doesn't match DPR's clearsigned posts.

Either his public key is somewhere obvious that I'm missing, or all of those DPR signatures are useless.

Title: Re: DPR's pub key
Post by: Everdred on April 21, 2013, 04:40 am

This is a very good question, but I am unable to answer it. So I will bump it.

Title: Re: DPR's pub key
Post by: scout on April 21, 2013, 04:50 am

-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux)

mQENBE2VWMwBCADcoI5qldde46EI80fHSTCS4CuJn1Py4AQjJvpAqFColeAm9xb1
/hb0ZUsG3vwod7uiPJdMlq3+1o3TSv9JlO3DPf7I50owQ9+S1ixXebouTvfpEKSb
dq1IWAu+O4PtlmFEb76MOmjOzoeV8We8kCRFq8ThoK979A1DR09KsaDfSjCITdsU
mQyVaRN0dCaj33V/QAPQybYAjNDEiNd0e1tV22n1dl6z2oVUgfJiuTVI5C0FhSKP
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hcJ6xADbFeoYEO6z5NEjXV0KmoDRCi4C7gdfABEBAAG0JFNpbGsgUm9hZCA8c3Rh
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FQgCCQoLBBYCAwECHgECF4AACgkQAiJCO2e3+iVfzwf/dg6wj6an8xehD7tYOjMb
f9/RAKLCq+GMJlROQ7mPoOqUdnTrQ375Ld0MUJFEQUHsmijkDbl7rOLw0IuJHJsx
w9wy5nNANMEMxjspdGvi8HalDrXJC+EiD2xM0gz/XrDmTsHhpAZEgwddygZFuHxW
wxpBHGB2clLf4xYMX5TC7Z8QJLEdXx9DW5mZ1K9XuC+6fkMpUblzoRizmzk1NJ+y
g27mYo4KigysleshF3yyQ62as5apqIfgyYrJ/udwa4JQ8Le6dzB0d3o8mrrDXqHS
uxSdLGNLh1B7lDphdsQxrx1W/468EubG+5PEf2DLqqbUYLDCxS3m4DN46woO/INt
5A==
=kHyk
-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

Title: Re: DPR's pub key
Post by: Everdred on April 21, 2013, 04:52 am

Thanks, scout!

Title: Re: DPR's pub key
Post by: subsrgood on April 21, 2013, 06:28 am

trying to get to 50

Title: Re: DPR's pub key
Post by: astral on April 21, 2013, 01:18 pm

Thanks so much, Scout!

For the benefit of others, DPR's key is populated in clearnet keyservers.  Didn't find it before because the key's ID gives no indication that it's DPR's.  One way to find is to search for <staff@silkroadmarket.org>.  If you are confident that you're connected to a trustworthy key server and get only one hit from that search, you can be confident that's the real one (it has no expiry).

A well-respected keyserver that is kept up to date is http://www.stinkfoot.org:11371/ .  (Reference http://www.rossde.com/PGP/pgp_keyserv.html#pubserv ).