linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Documentation/admin-guide: Embargoed hardware security issues

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Date:   Fri, 2 Aug 2019 06:49:08 +0200
From:   Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        security@...nel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.com>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/admin-guide: Embargoed hardware security
 issues

Hi Greg, Thomas,

On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 03:01:13PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> +The list is encrypted and email to the list can be sent by either PGP or
> +S/MIME encrypted and must be signed with the reporter's PGP key or S/MIME
> +certificate. The list's PGP key and S/MIME certificate are available from
> +https://www.kernel.org/....

Just thinking, wouldn't it be useful to strongly encourage that the
document should be in plain text format ? Otherwise the door remains open
for sending you a self-extractable EXE file which contains an encrypted
Word doc, which is not the most useful to handle especially to copy-paste
mitigation code nor to comment on. Even some occasional PDFs we've seen
on the sec@k.o list were sometimes quite detailed but less convenient
than the vast majority of plain text ones, particularly when it comes
to quoting some parts.

Just my two cents,
Willy