Important blog post! A New Kali Linux Archive Signing Key

TL;DR
Bad news for Kali Linux users! In the coming day(s), apt update is going to fail for pretty much everyone out there:
Missing key 827C8569F2518CC677FECA1AED65462EC8D5E4C5, which is needed to verify signature.
Reason is, we had to roll a new signing key for the Kali repository. You need to download and install the new key manually, here’s the one-liner:

┌──(kali㉿kali)-[~]
└─$ sudo wget https://archive.kali.org/archive-keyring.gpg -O /usr/share/keyrings/kali-archive-keyring.gpg
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Hello… when attempting to run the wget command listed in the article, I receive an error message saying that the certificate is not trusted and it will not continue to update the keyring. Anyone else having this issue? What do I need to do to get around it?

Can’t reproduce

Hi, this command worked for me to resolve Missing key issue, once it is done. we need to update all packages using command sudo apt update.

still having issues after running the fix. on kali 2021.3 rolling.

Since your error has nothing to do with the signing key, you should make a new post instead of adding it to this one.

If you do, describe your network situation.

Also 2021 is really old. If i’m correct the updates will stop working properly after 2 major versions. So it’s best if you go for the latest version

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