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From: "Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@g.o>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Re: [gentoo-dev] Manifest signing
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 16:38:38
Message-Id: 4E849EFB.1020101@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] Re: [gentoo-dev] Manifest signing by "Anthony G. Basile"
1 On 09/29/2011 12:36 PM, Anthony G. Basile wrote:
2 > On 09/29/2011 12:23 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
3 >> On Thursday, September 29, 2011 11:11:59 Patrick Lauer wrote:
4 >>> On 09/29/11 17:04, Tony "Chainsaw" Vroon wrote:
5 >>>> On 29/09/11 16:02, Anthony G. Basile wrote:
6 >>>>> Is there any chance that we can agree to reject
7 >>>>> unsigned manifests? Possibly a question for the Council to adjudicate?
8 >>>> I am happy to back a mandatory signing policy for the main gentoo-x86
9 >>>> tree. This is a simple yes or no question that the council can vote on.
10 >>> As previously discussed it would be nice to have some basic key policies
11 >>> in place for that - they can be changed at any later time, but for now
12 >>> we could agree on basic parameters like, say -
13 >>>
14 >>> at least 1024bit key length
15 >>> at least 6 months validity from creation
16 >>> one or more algorithms (initially DSA signatures and SHA1 hashing)
17 >> there's nothing to decide as it was already outlined long ago in the docs:
18 >> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=2&chap=6
19 >>
20 >> if you want to *refine* that, then that's a different issue. but the devs
21 >> already have all the info they need to start signing now.
22 >> -mike
23 > Thanks I didn't know that had made it to the devmanual. I drop my
24 > original request.
25 >
26 > I guess the next step, if we were to take it, would be to have infra
27 > enforce the policy automatically if a commit comes in which isn't signed.
28 >
29 Sorry sent this before getting Mike's email about
30
31 https://bugs.gentoo.org/377233
32
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34 Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D.
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