From: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Answers to some common kernel.org account questions
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2011 08:42:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111015064242.GA23349@1wt.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111014152100.GA11717@kroah.com>
Hi Greg,
On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 09:21:00AM -0600, Greg KH wrote:
> WHAT ABOUT FILE UPLOADS?
>
> The "robot signing" of uploaded files that was used in the past is no
> longer considered to be sufficiently secure, so a new policy has been
> instituted. A new tool ("kup") has been developed to help with the
> implementation of that policy; it works in a manner similar to the
> upload system used by the Debian project.
>
> The kup tool will require developers to sign files with their PGP key
> prior to uploading to kernel.org. This mechanism will keep the private
> signing keys from ever being stored on kernel.org (or any other server).
> More information will be made available once the file upload capability
> is restored.
Please reassure me, we will only have to upload the sig, not the whole
file ? I'm assuming that it will still be possible to generate the files
from the git tree (which should produce the exact same file, hence the
same sig). I'm asking because uploading 2*75 MB kernels will take slightly
more than two hours at full load assuming the link does not break at all
during this time, while a git push of one hundred patches only takes a
few seconds. This is a huge difference in efficiency and reliability !
Regards,
Willy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-15 6:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-14 15:21 Answers to some common kernel.org account questions Greg KH
2011-10-14 18:54 ` Procedural requirements for restoring kernel.org accounts H. Peter Anvin
2011-10-20 20:33 ` Phillip Lougher
2011-10-20 20:47 ` Ted Ts'o
2011-10-20 21:24 ` Phillip Lougher
2011-10-20 21:09 ` Alan Cox
2011-10-20 21:16 ` Ted Ts'o
2011-10-20 21:20 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-10-20 21:27 ` Phillip Lougher
2011-10-28 0:27 ` Aníbal Monsalve Salazar
2011-10-15 6:42 ` Willy Tarreau [this message]
2011-10-15 16:18 ` Answers to some common kernel.org account questions Greg KH
2011-10-15 17:04 ` Willy Tarreau
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