linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] prandom32 changes for v5.10

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Message-ID: <12bc8364008f797324097fb1974da1c0f75776b0.camel@perches.com>
Date:   Wed, 21 Oct 2020 14:41:06 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Marc Plumb <lkml.mplumb@...il.com>, Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>,
        Amit Klein <aksecurity@...il.com>,
        George Spelvin <lkml@....org>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>, Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] prandom32 changes for v5.10

On Wed, 2020-10-21 at 14:35 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 2:20 PM Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> wrote:
> > While secure solutions are useful, I really wonder if
> > "George Spelvin" is a real person.
> 
> It's not his real name, no, but he's a real person.
> 
> I do have his real name from years ago when I needed to confirm his
> identity for sign-offs (I forget what for, I think it was some dcache
> name hashing thing).
> 
> So I can confirm he's a real person who just wants to keep private,
> and is competent when it comes to hashing and security.

I hope that real name is in some escrow somewhere and
not just in some long thrown away spinning rust disk.

And because George isn't a real name and contributions
by him have been accepted, the DCO should be updated
to show how pseudonymous contributions can be made.