linux-kernel - Re: [git patches] libata updates, GPG signed (but see admin notes)

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Message-ID: <4EAF2688.9000508@zytor.com>
Date:	Mon, 31 Oct 2011 15:51:52 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	"Ted Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>, Junio C Hamano <gitster@...ox.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	git@...r.kernel.org,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senpartnership.com>,
	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-ide@...r.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [git patches] libata updates, GPG signed (but see admin notes)

On 10/31/2011 03:49 PM, Ted Ts'o wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 03:44:25PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> So nobody is worried about this (quoting from my earlier message)?
>>
>>    On the other hand, the consumers of "Linus kernel" may want to say that
>>    they trust your tree and your tags because they can verify them with your
>>    GPG signature, but also they can independently verify the lieutenants'
>>    trees you pulled from are genuine.
>>
>> A signed emphemeral tag is usable as means to verify authenticity in a
>> hop-by-hop fashion, but that does not leave a permanent trail that can be
>> used for auditing.
> 
> Oh, there are definitely people who worry about this.  They tend to be
> security poeple, though, so the goal is how do we leave the permanent
> trail in a way that doesn't generate too much noise or otherwise makes
> life difficult for developers who don't care.
> 

Could we introduce a tag namespace that doesn't show up in gitweb by
default, and perhaps doesn't resolve in abbreviated form?

This is basically what Linus suggested, as far as I understand:
something like refs/pulls/hpa/tip-123-456 which is otherwise a normal
tag object?

	-hpa


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