Re: Web of Trust work [Was: kernel.org tooling update]

Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2026-01-23T11:47:04Z

On Fri, 23 Jan 2026 10:29:28 +0100
Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 23, 2026 at 10:19:56AM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > Hello Konstantin,
> >
> > On 12/10/25 05:48, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
> > > ## Web of Trust work
> > >
> > > There is an ongoing work to replace our home-grown web of trust solution (that
> > > does work but has important bottlenecks and scaling limitations) with
> > > something both more distributed and easier to maintain. We're working with
> > > OpenSSF to design the framework and I hope to present it to the community in
> > > the next few months.
> >
> > the current home-grown solution is https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/kernel/pgpkeys.git/, right?
> >
> > I wonder what the bottlenecks and scaling limitations are that you mention.
> >
> > Is there some info available already now about the path you (and OpenSSF) intend to propose?
>
> There will be a presentation about this in February at a conference and
> hopefully it will be made public then as the work is still ongoing.

I got curious when I saw something about "First Person credentials"
at https://lfms26.sched.com/event/2ETT5?iframe=no that
"would begin with the Linux Kernel project" - and more importantly
how and when it would affect my duties. I guess I'd need to
refrain my curiosity until the end of Feb :-)

Regards,
Mauro

Thanks,
Mauro