Securely publish GPG keys on website

Bug #1371926 reported by Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
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Bug Description

Only MD5 hashes can be acquired securely by non-Ubuntu users when downloading Ubuntu, which are rather weak (and which should indicate a sense of urgency) and there seems to be little traction towards publishing SHA256 or other strong hashes in a similar manner. However mirrors host such hashes along with signatures for them, but they're impossible to check without having proper GPG keys in the first place.

Since the GPG keys change rather rarely compared to hashes, it should be easy to publish them on a suitably secured page. Ideally it would be a special page served over HTTPS rather than a protected wiki page (thus making it clear they're official and difficult to tamper with) like the MD5 hashes page, but I guess the latter works as well.

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affects: ubuntu → ubuntu-website
affects: ubuntu-website → ubumirror
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Chris Glass (tribaal) wrote :

This has nothing to do with Ubumirror, unfortunately.
Ubumirror is a set of scripts to make creating ubuntu mirrors easy - that's NOT what the main archives are using.

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