2015-11-22 Encryption Hard

So, I’m trying find the public key of somebody I need to email. But it won’t work. Here’s what I get when searching for a key from the command line:

alex@Megabombus:~$ gpg --search-key alex@gnu.org
gpg: searching for "alex@gnu.org" from hkps server hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net
gpgkeys: HTTP search error 60: SSL certificate problem: Invalid certificate chain
gpg: key "alex@gnu.org" not found on keyserver
gpg: keyserver internal error
gpg: keyserver search failed: Keyserver error

Uh oh. SSL certificate chain invalid? Are they using stuff I disabled in my SSL setup? Is this a man in the middle attack?

No email tonight, I guess!

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