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

H. Peter Anvin
2011-10-08T21:16:33Z

On 10/08/2011 10:59 AM, Jon Masters wrote:
>
> Good point about being pedantic, and the rest of your comments :) I
> understand that I'm taking this a little far but I'm just trying to
> point out one particular gaping hole in the way these things are
> currently done. One reason I stopped doing keysigning parties is that I
> realized they were mostly a show. You turn up and get a key signed and
> then everyone is impressed that you're in the strong set...wupdedoo. Not
> that I've anything against signing stuff on kernel.org and trying to
> improve things (I've long directly signed everything on master with my
> own keys in slight violation of policy, but that turned out to right).
>

Not so much in violation of policy... we just couldn't get people to do it.

-hpa