Re: [PATCH 2/2] Documentation/process/maintainer-pgp-guide: Replace broken link to PGP path finder

Jonathan Corbet
2021-08-20T17:12:13Z

SeongJae Park <sj38.park@gmail.com> writes:

> From: SeongJae Park <sjpark@amazon.de>
>
> PGP pathfinder[1], which is suggested for finding a trust path to
> unknown PGP keys by 'maintainer-pgp-guide.rst', is not working now.
> This commit replaces it with other available tools.
>
> [1] https://pgp.cs.uu.nl/

This looks fine to me, but I'd like Konstantin [CC'd] to have a look and
let me know if he agrees...

Thanks,

jon

> Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sjpark@amazon.de>
> ---
> Documentation/process/maintainer-pgp-guide.rst | 14 +++++---------
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/process/maintainer-pgp-guide.rst b/Documentation/process/maintainer-pgp-guide.rst
> index 8f8f1fee92b8..29e7d7b1cd44 100644
> --- a/Documentation/process/maintainer-pgp-guide.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/process/maintainer-pgp-guide.rst
> @@ -944,12 +944,11 @@ have on your keyring::
> uid [ unknown] Linus Torvalds <torvalds@kernel.org>
> sub rsa2048 2011-09-20 [E]
>
> -Next, open the `PGP pathfinder`_. In the "From" field, paste the key
> -fingerprint of Linus Torvalds from the output above. In the "To" field,
> -paste the key-id you found via ``gpg --search`` of the unknown key, and
> -check the results:
> -
> -- `Finding paths to Linus`_
> +Next, find a trust path from Linus Torvalds to the key-id you found via ``gpg
> +--search`` of the unknown key. For this, you can use several tools including
> +https://github.com/mricon/wotmate,
> +https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/kernel/pgpkeys.git/tree/graphs, and
> +https://the.earth.li/~noodles/pathfind.html.
>
> If you get a few decent trust paths, then it's a pretty good indication
> that it is a valid key. You can add it to your keyring from the
> @@ -962,6 +961,3 @@ administrators of the PGP Pathfinder service to not be malicious (in
> fact, this goes against :ref:`devs_not_infra`). However, if you
> do not carefully maintain your own web of trust, then it is a marked
> improvement over blindly trusting keyservers.
> -
> -.. _`PGP pathfinder`: https://pgp.cs.uu.nl/
> -.. _`Finding paths to Linus`: https://pgp.cs.uu.nl/paths/79BE3E4300411886/to/C94035C21B4F2AEB.html
> --
> 2.17.1