Hi Dominic and all, We are no longer PGP-signing our support emails, although we still accept PGP-authenticated updates to the RIPE Database. When we conducted our assessment, we weren't able to find a ticketing system that met our requirements and supported PGP. As the service was being used by a relatively small number of members, we decided that the benefits of the new ticketing system outweighed the PGP-signing service. It is also worth noting that the RIPE NCC public key was never meant for encrypted communication. It was only used for signing emails. However, we didn't notify members that we would not be PGP-signing our emails any more. This was an oversight on our part, and we would like to apologise for this. Kind regards, Andrew de la Haye Chief Operations Officer RIPE NCC On 01/03/2018 13:20, Dominic Schallert wrote:

Dear colleagues,

we noticed that the PGP-Key for ncc@ripe.net <mailto:ncc@ripe.net> (Key ID: C6839AEF) has expired on the 2nd of February 2018. As of writing, no new public keys have been published  over at https://www.ripe.net/manage-ips-and-asns/contact/ripe-ncc-pgp-keys 

Looking ahead to the rollout of the EU GDPR in May 2018, it might be beneficial to  allow for PGP-encrypted communication between LIRs and RIPE NCC, besides the existing PGP-based database authentication mechanism.

Kind Regards Dominic Schallert

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