Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Add Lukas & Ignat & Stefan for asymmetric keys

[David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>]

Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de> wrote:

> Herbert asks for long-term maintenance of everything under
> crypto/asymmetric_keys/ and associated algorithms (ECDSA, GOST, RSA) [1].
> 
> Ignat has kindly agreed to co-maintain this with me going forward.
> 
> Stefan has agreed to be added as reviewer for ECDSA.  He introduced it
> in 2021 and has been meticulously providing reviews for 3rd party
> patches anyway.
> 
> Retain David Howells' maintainer entry until he explicitly requests to
> be removed.  He originally introduced asymmetric keys in 2012.
> 
> RSA was introduced by Tadeusz Struk as an employee of Intel in 2015,
> but he's changed jobs and last contributed to the implementation in 2016.
> 
> GOST was introduced by Vitaly Chikunov as an employee of Basealt LLC [2]
> (Базальт СПО [3]) in 2019.  This company is an OFAC sanctioned entity
> [4][5], which makes employees ineligible as maintainer [6].  It's not
> clear if Vitaly is still working for Basealt, he did not immediately
> respond to my e-mail.  Since knowledge and use of GOST algorithms is
> relatively limited outside the Russian Federation, assign "Odd fixes"
> status for now.
> 
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/Z8QNJqQKhyyft_gz@gondor.apana.org.au/
> [2] https://prohoster.info/ru/blog/novosti-interneta/reliz-yadra-linux-5-2
> [3] https://www.basealt.ru/
> [4] https://ofac.treasury.gov/recent-actions/20240823
> [5] https://sanctionssearch.ofac.treas.gov/Details.aspx?id=50178
> [6] https://lore.kernel.org/r/7ee74c1b5b589619a13c6318c9fbd0d6ac7c334a.camel@HansenPartnership.com/
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de>

Seems reasonable.  Unfortunately, I find myself a bit strapped for time.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>