diff --git a/salt/common/tools/sbin/so-common b/salt/common/tools/sbin/so-common
index 2f436e86e..6733d51a6 100755
--- a/salt/common/tools/sbin/so-common
+++ b/salt/common/tools/sbin/so-common
@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ gpg_rpm_import() {
 	        local RPMKEYSLOC="$UPDATE_DIR/salt/repo/client/files/rocky/keys"
 	    fi
 	
-	    RPMKEYS=('RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-9' 'SALTSTACK-GPG-KEY2.pub' 'docker.pub' 'securityonion.pub')
+	    RPMKEYS=('RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-9' 'SALTSTACK-GPG-KEY2.pub' 'SALT-PROJECT-GPG-PUBKEY-2023.pub' 'docker.pub' 'securityonion.pub')
 
 	    for RPMKEY in "${RPMKEYS[@]}"; do
     	        rpm --import $RPMKEYSLOC/$RPMKEY
diff --git a/salt/repo/client/files/rocky/keys/SALT-PROJECT-GPG-PUBKEY-2023.pub b/salt/repo/client/files/rocky/keys/SALT-PROJECT-GPG-PUBKEY-2023.pub
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..be55ef561
--- /dev/null
+++ b/salt/repo/client/files/rocky/keys/SALT-PROJECT-GPG-PUBKEY-2023.pub
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
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