Hagrid

Hagrid is a verifying OpenPGP key server. When a new key is uploaded a token is sent to each user ID via email. This token can be used to verify the user ID. Keys can be queried by their verified user IDs (exact match) and their primary keys fingerprint. Keys can be deleted by clicking a link send to all user IDs.

Quick Start

Building Hagrid required a working Rust nightly toolchain. The key server uses the filesystem to store keys, user IDs and tokens. To run it, supply the absolute path to where you want the database to live and the absolute path to the template directory.

cargo run -- `pwd`/dist

This will spawn a web server listening on port 8080.

Hagrid uses sendmail for mailing, so you also need a working local mailer setup. The FROM field of the mails can be configured with the -F switch.

Usage

Hagrid implements basic HKP (op=get and op=index) so tools like GnuPG and OpenKeychain can use it directly. The differences to SKS are

• no support for op=vindex,
• mp=1 is always assumed,
• only exact matches for user IDs are returned,
• op=index returns either one or no keys and
• all packets that aren't public keys, user IDs or signatures are filters out.

Uploading a key via the HKP interface will trigger verification emails to be send.

Hagrid has it's own URL scheme to fetch keys, verify user IDs and delete keys. It's meant to be machine readable, but it's not a REST API. The following URLs are handled.

• GET /by-fpr<fingerprint> retrieves the key with the given fingerprint.
• GET /by-kid<key ID> retrieves the key with the given long key ID.
• GET /by-email<URL-encoded user ID> retrieves the key with the given user ID. Only exact matches are accepted.
• GET /vks/verify/<token> verifies a user ID using a token string send by email.
• GET /vks/delete/<fingerprint> requests deletion of the key with the given fingerprint.
• GET /vks/confirm/<token> confirms a keys deletion request using a token string send by email.

Keys can also be fetched by their subkeys fingerprint and key ID. A key won't show up until at least one user ID is verified.

Building

Hagrid consists of a Rust and a NPM project. While the web server is implemented in Rust, templates and CSS is bundled using NPM and Webpack. Building the Rust part requires a working nightly Rust toolchain. The easiest way to get the toolchain is to download rustup. After rustup is installed, get the nightly compiler and tools:

rustup default nightly

The web server can now be built with the cargo command:

cargo build --release

After compilation a binary is placed in target/release/ called hagrid. The binary is linked statically and can be copied everywhere.

cp target/release/hagrid /usr/local/bin

Bundling the web assets requires npm 8 or later. After you have npm installed fetch all dependencies and build the assets:

npm install
npm run build

The web assets are placed in dist/. To deploy the key server copy all directories under public/ to a writable location. Then start the server with the absolute path to the directory as argument:

mkdir /var/hagrid
cp -R dist/* /var/hagrid
hagrid /var/hagrid

This will spawn the server in foreground, listening on 0.0.0.0:8080. The --listen argument can be used to change port and listen address. The server will put all keys and runtime data under the base folder (/var/hagrid in the above example).

Reverse Proxy

Hagrid is designed to defer lookups to reverse proxy server like Nginx and Apache. The key database is a set of 3 directories with static files in them. The directory structure reflects Hagrids URL scheme. This way, lookups via by-fpr, by-email and by-kid can be handled by (multiple) simple HTTP server(s). A sample configuration for Nginx is part of the repository (nginx.conf).

Community

We're in ##hagrid on Freenode.