From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753789Ab1JBRyO (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Oct 2011 13:54:14 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:48375 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751567Ab1JBRyK (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Oct 2011 13:54:10 -0400 Message-ID: <4E88A537.4010008@zytor.com> Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2011 10:53:59 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:6.0.2) Gecko/20110906 Thunderbird/6.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Greg KH Subject: Re: kernel.org status: establishing a PGP web of trust References: <4E8655CD.90107@zytor.com> <201110020304.28288.rjw@sisk.pl> <4E87B885.50005@zytor.com> <201110021354.57995.rjw@sisk.pl> In-Reply-To: <201110021354.57995.rjw@sisk.pl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 10/02/2011 04:54 AM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Sunday, October 02, 2011, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > Hmm. That doesn't seem very practical if someone doesn't live close > to any other core kernel developers. > You probably know enough people (including myself) that would be willing to sign your key over the phone. That's part of giving yourself sufficient time. > What number of signatures on the key will be regarded as sufficient? > >> We can work out specific details at KS. > > Well, the KS is going to be busy time this year I suppose. :-) > What about people who haven't been invited to the KS? Well, KS is still a place where we can discuss these kinds of policies; we can't be a perfect democracy and in fact have never even attempted to. -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.