Re: kernel.org status: establishing a PGP web of trust

Krzysztof Halasa
2011-10-06T17:06:00Z

Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> writes:

> If you just want to be sure that patch number 100 comes from the same
> person as the 99 patches before you could do that without key signing
> (require signed patches and check that all 100 patches were signed by
> the same key).

This leaves room for MITM attacks. The attacked can remove the original
signature and add his own.
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Krzysztof Halasa