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

[Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com>]

On 3/5/25 12:14 PM, Lukas Wunner 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>

Reviewed-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com>

> ---
>   MAINTAINERS | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   1 file changed, 28 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 8e0736d..b16a1cc 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -3595,14 +3595,42 @@ F:	drivers/hwmon/asus_wmi_sensors.c
>   
>   ASYMMETRIC KEYS
>   M:	David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
> +M:	Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de>
> +M:	Ignat Korchagin <ignat@cloudflare.com>
>   L:	keyrings@vger.kernel.org
> +L:	linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org
>   S:	Maintained
>   F:	Documentation/crypto/asymmetric-keys.rst
>   F:	crypto/asymmetric_keys/
>   F:	include/crypto/pkcs7.h
>   F:	include/crypto/public_key.h
> +F:	include/keys/asymmetric-*.h
>   F:	include/linux/verification.h
>   
> +ASYMMETRIC KEYS - ECDSA
> +M:	Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de>
> +M:	Ignat Korchagin <ignat@cloudflare.com>
> +R:	Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com>
> +L:	linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org
> +S:	Maintained
> +F:	crypto/ecc*
> +F:	crypto/ecdsa*
> +F:	include/crypto/ecc*
> +
> +ASYMMETRIC KEYS - GOST
> +M:	Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de>
> +M:	Ignat Korchagin <ignat@cloudflare.com>
> +L:	linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org
> +S:	Odd fixes
> +F:	crypto/ecrdsa*
> +
> +ASYMMETRIC KEYS - RSA
> +M:	Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de>
> +M:	Ignat Korchagin <ignat@cloudflare.com>
> +L:	linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org
> +S:	Maintained
> +F:	crypto/rsa*
> +
>   ASYNCHRONOUS TRANSFERS/TRANSFORMS (IOAT) API
>   R:	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
>   S:	Odd fixes