linux-kernel - Re: kernel.org status: establishing a PGP web of trust

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Message-ID: <4E90BC10.5020300@zytor.com>
Date:	Sat, 08 Oct 2011 14:09:36 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Jon Masters <jonathan@...masters.org>
CC:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu, Krzysztof Halasa <khc@...waw.pl>,
	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>,
	"Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@...hat.com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
Subject: Re: kernel.org status: establishing a PGP web of trust

On 10/08/2011 10:59 AM, Jon Masters wrote:
>
> Good point about being pedantic, and the rest of your comments :) I
> understand that I'm taking this a little far but I'm just trying to
> point out one particular gaping hole in the way these things are
> currently done. One reason I stopped doing keysigning parties is that I
> realized they were mostly a show. You turn up and get a key signed and
> then everyone is impressed that you're in the strong set...wupdedoo. Not
> that I've anything against signing stuff on kernel.org and trying to
> improve things (I've long directly signed everything on master with my
> own keys in slight violation of policy, but that turned out to right).
>

Not so much in violation of policy... we just couldn't get people to do it.

	-hpa

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