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Security farce: Dead Developer still on Debian keyring after 11 years

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Re: Security farce: Dead Developer still on Debian keyring after 11 years

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> We went looking for details.

They didn't go very far though.

Steve's key was removed in 2015, because his key was 1024-bit:

https://salsa.debian.org/debian-keyring/keyring/commit/281f3...

Apparently Debian folks learned about Steve's death only in 2016:

https://salsa.debian.org/debian-keyring/keyring/commit/98466...

The part of the project history page about Steve was added in 2020:

https://salsa.debian.org/ddp-team/project-history/commit/e93...