On the Debian servers I administer recently an update to the apt & gpg package has caused me to get this message when ever I run apt-get update:
There are no public key available for the following key IDs: A70DAF536070D3A1

To fix this you must either be
a. root
or
b. have proper sudo privileges.

I will use sudo in my example.

sudo gpg --recv-key --keyserver wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net A70DAF536070D3A1

sudo gpg --export A70DAF536070D3A1 | apt-key add -

So far it only seems to be affecting my debian installs that use testing as the favored repository but I’d imagine that once etch goes stable that my stable favored servers will complain (or the debian team will have fixed it by then).

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