Hi Carlos, thanks for your response.
Trying the workaround resulted in an error:
vigrid@red:~$ sudo apt update
[sudo] password for vigrid:
Hit:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu impish InRelease
Hit:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu impish-security InRelease
Hit:3 http://apt.pop-os.org/proprietary impish InRelease
Hit:5 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu impish-updates InRelease
Hit:6 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu impish-backports InRelease
Hit:7 http://apt.pop-os.org/release impish InRelease
Ign:4 https://www.plasticscm.com/plasticrepo/stable/ubuntu ./ InRelease
Get:8 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease [242 kB]
Hit:9 https://www.plasticscm.com/plasticrepo/stable/ubuntu ./ Release
Err:8 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease
The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 3B4FE6ACC0B21F32
Reading package lists... Done
W: GPG error: http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 3B4FE6ACC0B21F32
E: The repository 'http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease' is not signed.
N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.
So I had to request the public key:
vigrid@red:~$ sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 3B4FE6ACC0B21F32
Warning: apt-key is deprecated. Manage keyring files in trusted.gpg.d instead (see apt-key(8)).
Executing: /tmp/apt-key-gpghome.BZyzUO2YQV/gpg.1.sh --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 3B4FE6ACC0B21F32
gpg: key 3B4FE6ACC0B21F32: public key "Ubuntu Archive Automatic Signing Key (2012) <ftpmaster@ubuntu.com>" imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg: imported: 1
It's not the prettiest way, but then I was able to update my apt database and then successfully install PlasticSCM.
Thanks a lot!