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Sector11

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Registered: 2015-08-20

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[Solved] keys - gpg type...

How can a person determine exactly what a key is for?

Some are up in your face obvious, others are about as clear as black letters on a black wall on a foggy night with no lights.

Here's my keys I am ??? about - with {notes}

 06 Nov 16 @ 19:57:18 ~
  $ sudo apt-key list
[sudo] password for sector11: 
/etc/apt/trusted.gpg
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pub   1024D/7FAC5991 2007-03-08  { no a freaking clue }
uid                  Google, Inc. Linux Package Signing Key <linux-packages-keymaster@google.com>
sub   2048g/C07CB649 2007-03-08

pub   4096R/D38B4796 2016-04-12  { no a freaking clue }
uid                  Google Inc. (Linux Packages Signing Authority) <linux-packages-keymaster@google.com>
sub   4096R/640DB551 2016-04-12 [expires: 2019-04-12]

pub   2048R/0244C327 2016-03-07 [expires: 2018-05-16]  { palemoon browser }
uid                  home:stevenpusser OBS Project <home:stevenpusser@build.opensuse.org>

{the rest are bunsen and Debian and very clear}

Point is I'm wide-eyed as to why I have google keys here 
I hate google ... I cannot remember ever putting those there. 

Is there w way to find out what they are for?

I already know about:

sudo apt-key del <KEYCODEHERE>

so that's not a problem.

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Head_on_a_Stick

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Registered: 2015-09-29

Posts: 9,093

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Re: [Solved] keys - gpg type...

Do you have Flash installed?

IIRC, the Debian package installs libflashplayer.so by downloading Google Chrome Stable ( ) and extracting it from that -- it would need the gpg keys to verify the download.

EDIT: I meant libpepflash.so and the PepperFlashPlayer, obviously  :8

Last edited by Head_on_a_Stick (2016-11-07 09:11:56)

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nobody

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Registered: 2015-08-10

Posts: 3,655

Re: [Solved] keys - gpg type...

The google keys are for authenticating pepperflash packages.

Otherwise, you need to use your good judgement and sleuthing skills to figure out what a particular key is for…:)

tynman

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Registered: 2015-10-13

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Re: [Solved] keys - gpg type...

And for the third one, I'll take a wild guess it is related to a downloaded of the palemoon web browser from  stevenpusser's uber-awesome repository of Debian packages he has backported.

stevep

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Registered: 2016-08-08

Posts: 381

Re: [Solved] keys - gpg type...

Ooh! Ooh! Guilty as charged--that's the key for the first repo i set up on the OBS that have led to the rest--Pale Moon. (though I did accidently nuke it and had to rebuild it from scratch, leading to a key change)

TODO:  find out how to enable their advertised Stretch repository, since I know how to build PM on it now with gcc-4.9 (it dies with gcc-5 currently)

Last edited by stevep (2016-11-07 20:58:29)

Sector11

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Re: [Solved] keys - gpg type...

@ HoaS  Yea I have flash - but pepperflash plugins.

@ nobody thanks for confirming that.  I'm not 'flash happy' but the Mrs. is for her games.
Wish html5 could handle .swf games. 

@tyman and stevep - YUP, that's Palemoons key
... first repo?  Is that why it died?
key change huh ... bummer - more work to do.

OK thanks guys guess they stay.

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