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

Greg KH
2026-01-23T11:58:52Z

On Fri, Jan 23, 2026 at 12:47:00PM +0100, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> 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 :-)

Ideally it will not affect anything, just replace the use of gpg however
you use it today for kernel work.

thanks,

greg k-h