From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755484Ab1IGQBL (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Sep 2011 12:01:11 -0400 Received: from imr4.ericy.com ([198.24.6.9]:56435 "EHLO imr4.ericy.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752570Ab1IGQBB (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Sep 2011 12:01:01 -0400 Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2011 06:50:52 -0700 From: Guenter Roeck To: Jean Delvare CC: Linus Torvalds , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org" Subject: Re: [lm-sensors] [GIT PULL] hwmon fixes for 3.1 Message-ID: <20110907135052.GA26868@ericsson.com> References: <1315325608-17922-1-git-send-email-guenter.roeck@ericsson.com> <20110907014725.GC22609@ericsson.com> <20110907092816.4634b657@endymion.delvare> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110907092816.4634b657@endymion.delvare> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 03:28:16AM -0400, Jean Delvare wrote: [ ... ] > > When you created this account on kernel.org, you used a PGP key to > identify yourself, didn't you? If you sign your message with that key, > then a few people (basically the kernel.org maintainers) will be able > to confirm that you are the same person who had a trusted kernel.org > account. I don't know if Linus has the list though. > > What surprises me a little is that I don't have your public key in my > keyring, and I can't seem to be able to find it on public servers > either. You really should push your key to public key servers, > otherwise a signed message from you has no value in general. > Yeah, one may notice that I am not a security guy and don't pay sufficient attention to such matters. > Obviously it's a little late now though. The whole idea of trust and > signatures is to keep the level of trust after odd events such as the > kernel.org break-in. For this, keys must have been exchanged, tested > and trusted long before said event happens. > Agreed. Guenter