GPG verification keys don't match

Mark Peloquin markus at cs.wisc.edu
Sat Apr 11 01:01:02 CEST 2020


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 --verify -v install-tl-windows.exe.sha512.asc
gpg: WARNING: unsafe permissions on homedir '/home/peloquin/.gnupg'
gpg: assuming signed data in 'install-tl-windows.exe.sha512'
gpg: Signature made 2020-04-06T05:51:16 PDT
gpg:                using RSA key 4CE1877E19438C70
gpg: Can't check signature: No public key

But this shows that it should be 0D5E5D9106BAB6BC:

https://www.tug.org/texlive/doc/tlmgr.html#CRYPTOGRAPHIC-VERIFICATION

I found the incorrect key appear before in this mailing list. The reply says 'the actual signature file is broken':
https://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2018-September/042441.html
https://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2018-September/042446.html

Markus


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