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From: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com>
To: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org" <lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org>
Subject: Re: [lm-sensors] [GIT PULL] hwmon fixes for 3.1
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 13:50:52 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110907135052.GA26868@ericsson.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110907092816.4634b657@endymion.delvare>

On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 03:28:16AM -0400, Jean Delvare wrote:
[ ... ]
> 
> When you created this account on kernel.org, you used a PGP key to
> identify yourself, didn't you? If you sign your message with that key,
> then a few people (basically the kernel.org maintainers) will be able
> to confirm that you are the same person who had a trusted kernel.org
> account. I don't know if Linus has the list though.
> 
> What surprises me a little is that I don't have your public key in my
> keyring, and I can't seem to be able to find it on public servers
> either. You really should push your key to public key servers,
> otherwise a signed message from you has no value in general.
> 
Yeah, one may notice that I am not a security guy and don't pay sufficient
attention to such matters.

> Obviously it's a little late now though. The whole idea of trust and
> signatures is to keep the level of trust after odd events such as the
> kernel.org break-in. For this, keys must have been exchanged, tested
> and trusted long before said event happens.
> 
Agreed.

Guenter

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From: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com>
To: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org" <lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org>
Subject: Re: [lm-sensors] [GIT PULL] hwmon fixes for 3.1
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2011 06:50:52 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110907135052.GA26868@ericsson.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110907092816.4634b657@endymion.delvare>

On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 03:28:16AM -0400, Jean Delvare wrote:
[ ... ]
> 
> When you created this account on kernel.org, you used a PGP key to
> identify yourself, didn't you? If you sign your message with that key,
> then a few people (basically the kernel.org maintainers) will be able
> to confirm that you are the same person who had a trusted kernel.org
> account. I don't know if Linus has the list though.
> 
> What surprises me a little is that I don't have your public key in my
> keyring, and I can't seem to be able to find it on public servers
> either. You really should push your key to public key servers,
> otherwise a signed message from you has no value in general.
> 
Yeah, one may notice that I am not a security guy and don't pay sufficient
attention to such matters.

> Obviously it's a little late now though. The whole idea of trust and
> signatures is to keep the level of trust after odd events such as the
> kernel.org break-in. For this, keys must have been exchanged, tested
> and trusted long before said event happens.
> 
Agreed.

Guenter

  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-07 13:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-06 16:13 [lm-sensors] [GIT PULL] hwmon fixes for 3.1 Guenter Roeck
2011-09-06 16:13 ` Guenter Roeck
2011-09-06 23:16 ` [lm-sensors] " Linus Torvalds
2011-09-06 23:16   ` Linus Torvalds
2011-09-07  1:47   ` [lm-sensors] " Guenter Roeck
2011-09-07  1:47     ` Guenter Roeck
2011-09-07  7:28     ` [lm-sensors] " Jean Delvare
2011-09-07  7:28       ` Jean Delvare
2011-09-07 13:50       ` Guenter Roeck [this message]
2011-09-07 13:50         ` Guenter Roeck
2011-09-07  7:16   ` Jean Delvare
2011-09-07  7:16     ` Jean Delvare
2011-09-26 15:11 ` Guenter Roeck
2011-09-26 15:11   ` Guenter Roeck
2011-10-03 19:53 ` [lm-sensors] " Guenter Roeck
2011-10-03 19:53   ` Guenter Roeck
2011-10-21 17:24 ` [lm-sensors] " Guenter Roeck
2011-10-21 17:24   ` Guenter Roeck

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