Key consistency checks

This requirement has been approved by Santiago Ruano Rincón <santiagorr@riseup.net> 7 years, 2 months ago.

This process has been closed by gwolf on 2018-04-11: no further modifications are possible.

Every Debian member needs a GPG key of sufficient strength. In addition, all keys should be certified so we can link them to a real-world identity.

The normal requirements are:

the key should be type RSA and version 4 or greater
the key should have the sign, certify and encrypt capabilities (subkeys are encouraged)
the primary cryptographic material should be at least 4096 bits
the UIDs used by an applicant to work in the project should be signed by at least two existing Debian members (1 for DM applications)
as an alternative to the previous requirement, the key can be endorsed (see link at the bottom of the page) by multiple Debian Members (the number of required endorsements depends on the endorsement's age and nature)
pseudonyms or anonymity are acceptable in certain circumstances

If the key does not meet these requirements, and you would struggle to create one which does, contact Front Desk.

Keys are first searched in hkps://keyring.debian.org. If no key is found, then the key will be imported from hkps://keyserver.ubuntu.com/. Please ensure that you have sent your key to Ubuntu's key server. Sending public keys to keyring.debian.org will only work if your key is already in Debian's keyring and will only be taken into account after the Keyring Maintainers updated it. For Debian Maintainers and Developers, please remember to send your key to both servers.

This check will be approved manually by Front Desk as the application progresses.

Key check results

OpenPGP fingerprint	C985 A104 860E 5F2D 2FD8 E8C3 F7D3 FAD9 3328 6674
Main key	ok (last updated: 2025-05-27 16:42 UTC)
UID Bjorn Dolk <debian, bjorndolk.com>	ok, 0 non-DD sigs, 1 DD sigs: AFF1D4BDB69135D0: Mikael Djurfeldt <mdj@debian.org>
UID Bjorn Dolk <dolk, debian.org>	skip uid_revoked, 0 non-DD sigs, 0 DD sigs: none

Active key endorsements

Endorsed by	Date	Statement	Actions

Log

Date	Author	Action	Content	Public
2018-03-26 13:08	santiago	req_approve	Requirement approved	yes
2017-05-16 20:43	noodles	-	A new key will not invalidate the existing advocate statement.	yes
2017-05-16 18:11	dolk	-	Your statement regarding the key and UID is true. I will work on providing a new key with trust attached to it. This may take a while. Will this also invalidate the advocate statement? I assume it will.	yes
2017-05-16 07:30	noodles	-	As far as I can tell the dolk@debian.org uid present on this key has never been valid; this is not a case of a returning DD, but instead someone who is applying for DM status and has never had a Debian email address. Unable to approve this key as a result.	yes