{"id":212671,"date":"2025-04-29T01:27:58","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T06:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/kali-linux-warns-of-update-failures-after-losing-repo-signing-key"},"modified":"2025-04-29T01:27:58","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T06:27:58","slug":"kali-linux-warns-of-update-failures-after-losing-repo-signing-key","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/kali-linux-warns-of-update-failures-after-losing-repo-signing-key","title":{"rendered":"Kali Linux warns of update failures after losing repo signing key"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/kali-linux-warns-of-update-failures-after-losing-repo-signing-key.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Offensive Security warned Kali Linux users to manually install a new Kali repository signing key to avoid experiencing update failures.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement comes after OffSec lost the old repo signing key (ED444FF07D8D0BF6) and was forced to create a new one (ED65462EC8D5E4C5) signed by Kali Linux developers using signatures available on the <a href=\"https:\/\/keyserver.ubuntu.com\/pks\/lookup?search=827C8569F2518CC677FECA1AED65462EC8D5E4C5&fingerprint=on&op=index\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ubuntu OpenPGP key server<\/a>. However, since the key was not compromised, the old one was not removed from the keyring.<\/p>\n<p>When trying to get the list of latest software packages on systems still using the old key, users will see \u201cMissing key 827C8569F2518CC677FECA1AED65462EC8D5E4C5, which is needed to verify signature\u201d errors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Offensive Security warned Kali Linux users to manually install a new Kali repository signing key to avoid experiencing update failures. The announcement comes after OffSec lost the old repo signing key (ED444FF07D8D0BF6) and was forced to create a new one (ED65462EC8D5E4C5) signed by Kali Linux developers using signatures available on the Ubuntu OpenPGP key server. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}