From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752783Ab1JTUsL (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Oct 2011 16:48:11 -0400 Received: from li9-11.members.linode.com ([67.18.176.11]:53136 "EHLO test.thunk.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751394Ab1JTUsK (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Oct 2011 16:48:10 -0400 Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 16:47:59 -0400 From: "Ted Ts'o" To: Phillip Lougher Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , greg@kroah.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, phillip@lougher.demon.co.uk Subject: Re: Procedural requirements for restoring kernel.org accounts Message-ID: <20111020204759.GB16820@thunk.org> Mail-Followup-To: Ted Ts'o , Phillip Lougher , "H. Peter Anvin" , greg@kroah.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, phillip@lougher.demon.co.uk References: <20111014152100.GA11717@kroah.com> <4E988564.40905@zytor.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: tytso@thunk.org X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on test.thunk.org); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 09:33:20PM +0100, Phillip Lougher wrote: > > I notice a key signing has been announced for the KS > (http://sites.google.com/site/kernelsummit2011/gpg-key-verification) @ > 4.30pm on Tuesday, open to all LCE attendees. However, I'm sure I'm > not the only one who doesn't get into Prague early enough to go to > this. So, will there be another key signing session held during the > three days of LCE, and will the procedure mentioned in the link above > ("If you would like to participate, please send an e-mail to > prague-key-submission@googlegroups.com") apply too? If you're not going to be able to make the key signing on Tuesday, please don't bother to send your key to prague-key-submission@googlegroups.com, since that won't do much good. Instead, I would suggest that you use the script called gpg-key2ps, which can be found in a package called pgp-tools (Fedora/Red Hat/SuSE) or signing-party (Debian/Ubuntu), or from the source tree found at http://pgp-tools.alioth.debian.org. This will print out your keys multiple times on a piece of paper, so you can cut them into paper strips. There will be many kernel developers staying the whole week. You can ask them to sign your key, and then hand them one of the strips of paper. You will need to convince them of your identity; this can be done with government issued ID, although some kernel developers may not be comfortable doing this since they might not know what a Welsh identity card or UK passport might look like. So some kernel developers may only sign a key if they know you personally. Other kernel developers are willing to trust government issued ID (I've been around the world enough so I know what a UK passport looks like :-). Regards, - Ted