Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 08 Oct 2011 14:09:36 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: kernel.org status: establishing a PGP web of trust |
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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
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