May 19
PGP/GPG transition 8CA99047 -> 29C0FFEE *
Here comes the new 4096 bit RSA key, replacing the old (2002) 8CA99047 1024 bit DSA key:
pub 4096R/29C0FFEE 2009-05-18 Key fingerprint = 9590 8AA6 E4F7 BAA7 8BD6 C148 F1A6 9BE4 29C0 FFEE uid Obey Arthur Liu <arthur@milliways.fr> uid Obey Arthur Liu <obey.liu@ensimag.imag.fr> uid Obey Arthur Liu <graffit@graffit.net> uid Obey Arthur Liu <obey.liu@lzb.fr> uid Obey Arthur Liu <arthur.randolph@gmail.com> sub 4096R/15D7FD9B 2009-05-18
In other news, I found a great flatshare on Riedmattstrasse in Kreis 3 in Zürich with a fellow Google summer intern. Thanks to all (Jeroen, Martin, Jaroslavs, Giacomo..) who gave me pointers about finding accomodation in Zürich. I’m looking forward to a great summer there.
* It did involve generating about 40 millions gpg keys on a few très badass computing clusters
UPDATE: Come on guys. Of course I followed basic key management rules. The clusters which generated the actual final keys were under my direct control and the particular slice which generated this published key is on my desk.
May 19th, 2009 at 12:17 pm
Were you the only one with root access on those clusters?
May 19th, 2009 at 12:48 pm
So, er, before your GPG key was published or used anywhere, it had already been present on machines outside your direct control? I don’t think that’s an example of the sort of good key management that Debian relies on.
May 19th, 2009 at 2:38 pm
Of course, I’m the only root on stacks computers on computers in my bedroom.
May 19th, 2009 at 2:39 pm
This particular key was generated on a cluster placed in my bedroom, under my sole control. Don’t worry
May 19th, 2009 at 3:08 pm
Is the computing power the main limitation or the entropy? It always looked to me like the main problem ist the latter.
May 19th, 2009 at 7:03 pm
Depends, but the entropy issue is easy to bypass, without losing security.
May 21st, 2009 at 12:09 pm
Neat! Now you should invite 28 friends for coffee and drink for the new web of trust while signing each other’s new keys.