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Demsetm

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Registered: 2019-02-24

Posts: 5

Gpg data source; different ip addresses

Hello .

I'm fairly knew to this, and have only installed Arch one time earlier. That is why this time I want to do it properly and I'm still getting the hang of the process of verifying the .iso of linux distributions.

I'm in this process right now and so far I've:

* Compared SHA1 & MD5 checksums.
* Verified pgp with the use of gpg.

But pgp didn't work at first, and it wasn't until I got hold of the signature of "Pierre Schmitz <pierre@archlinux.de" that the iso could be verified.

As I got help from [topic]226593/[/topic] aswell as [topic]234327/[/topic]

And one thing that really scratched my head, was that all of the signatures had different IP addresses.

https://51.15.53.138:443

https://2a02:c205:3001:3626::1]:443

and my results after running:

gpg --search-key 7F2D434B9741E8AC

and

gpg --search-keys 4AA4767BBC9C4B1D18AE28B77F2D434B9741E8AC

ends up with

https://37.191.231.105:443

Questions -

Is this odd?; or is it just the result of having exported and changed personal computers over the years?

What is the difference of respective keys? (7F2D434B9741E8AC & 4AA4767BBC9C4B1D18AE28B77F2D434B9741E8AC)

ewaller

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Re: Gpg data source; different ip addresses

Somehow you have posted this about 5 times.  Whatever you are doing, please stop.

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loqs

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Re: Gpg data source; different ip addresses

4AA4767BBC9C4B1D18AE28B77F2D434B9741E8AC #fingerprint
                        7F2D434B9741E8AC #long id
                                9741E8AC #short id

The default gpg server used by gnupg as provided by arch unless configured otherwise is hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net different addresses would belong to different pool members or IPV4 vs IPV6.