Re: Answers to some common kernel.org account questions

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 08:42:42AM +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> 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 ?

That is what we are working on doing, there are still a few things left
to resolve to enable this to work properly, which is why it hasn't been
implemented yet.

thanks,

greg k-h