From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AD07D28688C for ; Fri, 13 Feb 2026 21:47:05 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1771019225; cv=none; b=oaZItIvbN+DY8hOGHafK/XR6w+s5Koq6C1b4oLkdWEOLgZ5npmgfc2wdHJab26DKQCRBqAoUEWo2qODCvU+SXFU9PMIE9svElgQA38VnCqxOPMJ6WdQYvgdtq0QImn8N/Y/zL8AgLpzZ1KJbTfvyqr0F0hm6yPhteAY6921Am9U= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1771019225; c=relaxed/simple; bh=j79Xdju7wDQ8s5pxQWw1dMT3tGMsBrBxfDBGfHNX7U8=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=QVu8UDS4E3vVyUlAj2TO12HyB7KtV2g5Mw0vRS3Ss4h3KhwwDSqtATKfQVEDXXxnJqiiPhpjtWSa2htXjDeq7gkmJngDM/8f0DTRVTtH8Whib/Avme3cJIRzqCZjA4OeSD/dRHsJSl1CgSJUqZwcYcEEhWlvdsJ+MXO4Vu4fphY= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=ji42H9MX; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="ji42H9MX" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E12B8C116C6; Fri, 13 Feb 2026 21:47:04 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1771019225; bh=j79Xdju7wDQ8s5pxQWw1dMT3tGMsBrBxfDBGfHNX7U8=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=ji42H9MX0Lbp3vfajDJkTjP+s2vjWuT+AKh6ghzPs5dqOkedOfZX6CreTS7rTWrE8 BTFcSSQj3IPUNvzzrwWVWlTA1PbfgblqWyqLII5UUlgGf1IG9NbPHM+NyB1HXR26/U dOQncwhjhbLbdrqrG7+f9LPH+5PiS1JE1uhNSwe8DrMtSrdZBHqXiTU47u2eLQ8AV5 fsCVFn270FFQGSQtevmagIHyQ6FvdA6CS8hgeTbm1CAtz492fVFsJOYF9pJAHCefqv 9KS5HodE/r9e8aGbMe60JbyaNjxE+rTatqzcUXWZCEFSa8xgxhiVNeeYlRTy179wkF gF9NvL2WE0X1g== Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2026 16:47:03 -0500 From: Konstantin Ryabitsev To: Uwe =?utf-8?Q?Kleine-K=C3=B6nig?= Cc: keys@linux.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] b4 keyring maintenance Message-ID: <20260213-bizarre-nippy-wildcat-60dd35@lemur> References: Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: keys@linux.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: On Tue, Feb 03, 2026 at 07:19:23PM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > last week I noticed that there are several symlinks in .keyring (i.e. > the directory that can be used with b4) that are not up to date. This > patch set cleans up a part of the issues. Merged, thank you! > What is still open and ugly: > > - The scripts don't cope for these cases, so unless some manual care is > applied, the keyring will become outdated again. > - There are quite some email addresses that are part of two keys > (`iconv -f latin1 keys/*.asc | sed -nr 's/^uid[^<]*<([^>]*)>/\1/p' | sort | uniq -d` > produces some false positives) > For these the cert that is linked to is not chosen deterministically. I agree, this was never really completed, largely because the b4 keyring isn't fully completed as far as designing it goes. I hope to get back to it soon, though. Thanks, -K