From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754982Ab1JCBty (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Oct 2011 21:49:54 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:50485 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754931Ab1JCBts (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Oct 2011 21:49:48 -0400 Message-ID: <4E8914AF.3060902@zytor.com> Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2011 18:49:35 -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: Ben Pfaff CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: kernel.org status: establishing a PGP web of trust References: <4E8655CD.90107@zytor.com> <87zkhirhxo.fsf@blp.benpfaff.org> In-Reply-To: <87zkhirhxo.fsf@blp.benpfaff.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 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 06:18 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote: > "H. Peter Anvin" writes: > >> 5. Get as many other kernel developers that you have physical access to >> to sign your key after verifying the fingerprint. Verifying keys >> over the phone is OK if and only if you know them *extremely* well; >> think "would I be willing to testify in court that the person I >> talked to was X"? > > There is already an extensive Debian web of trust, and along with > it a keysigning coordination effort and even a long list of > Debian developers who offer to sign keys, with their physical > locations and email addresses: > http://wiki.debian.org/Keysigning/Offers > > I wonder whether either effort would benefit from joining forces? > I am also sure that there is overlap between Debian developers > and kernel developers. There almost certainly is, and keep in mind that there isn't really "a Debian web of trust" and "a kernel web of trust"... there is a "PGP web of trust" as long as people upload their signatures to the shared keyserver system. -hpaq