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Re:SKS Keyserver Network Under Attack by snazz on Saturday June 29, 2019 @02:09PM (#20313925)
I don’t think the AUR has a concept of package signing—a PKGBULD will often download a tarball from somewhere and any signing is ad-hoc. The official repositories use their own key ring (which is distributed without a key server).
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Re:SKS Keyserver Network Under Attack by majewsky on Saturday June 29, 2019 @02:26PM (#20313996)
Correct. The only time when this would concern you is when you add a third-party repository, e.g. one of [1]. This usually involves a manual TOFU step where you do the equivalent of `gpg --recv-keys $ID` on the pacman keyring.

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Unofficial_user_reposit...

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Re:SKS Keyserver Network Under Attack by jwilk on Saturday June 29, 2019 @04:16PM (#20314544)
Beware that "gpg --recv-keys <keyid>" (or even "gpg --recv-keys <fingerprint>"!) can be tricked into inserting malicious keys into the keyring:

https://dev.gnupg.org/T3398

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