From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965172Ab1JFRGA (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Oct 2011 13:06:00 -0400 Received: from inx.pm.waw.pl ([195.116.170.130]:60607 "EHLO inx.pm.waw.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965078Ab1JFRF7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Oct 2011 13:05:59 -0400 From: Krzysztof Halasa To: Adrian Bunk Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, "Frank Ch. Eigler" , "H. Peter Anvin" , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , 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> <4E88A537.4010008@zytor.com> <20111003093239.GB25136@localhost.pp.htv.fi> <20111003180441.GD3072@localhost.pp.htv.fi> <34045.1317760188@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <20111004223932.GA3460@localhost.pp.htv.fi> Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2011 19:05:54 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20111004223932.GA3460@localhost.pp.htv.fi> (Adrian Bunk's message of "Wed, 5 Oct 2011 01:39:32 +0300") Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Adrian Bunk 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. -- Krzysztof Halasa