From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753869Ab1JBSTk (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Oct 2011 14:19:40 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:48591 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751708Ab1JBSTe (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Oct 2011 14:19:34 -0400 Message-ID: <4E88AB2C.60804@zytor.com> Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2011 11:19:24 -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> <201110021354.57995.rjw@sisk.pl> <4E88A537.4010008@zytor.com> <201110022014.27549.rjw@sisk.pl> In-Reply-To: <201110022014.27549.rjw@sisk.pl> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.3 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 11:14 AM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: >> >> 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. > > Well, then I propose that people create two new key pairs instead of > just one and take both of them to the KS for signing. Afterwards, one > of them will be used for development and the other one's private key > will be kept in a safe place (without any online access), so it can be > used readily if the first pair is lost or compromised somehow. > > Perhaps the second pair should have a longer life time. > Yes, this is actually a very good practice (the long-lived key should be a sign-only key, for what it's worth.) I didn't propose it because I thought it would be too much work. What do people think? It might be more important for people who are physically isolated. >>> What number of signatures on the key will be regarded as sufficient? FWIW, the stock PGP web of trust rules require 3 signatures. -hpa