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From: Dane Smith <c1pher@g.o>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Preparations Council meeting 2011-08-09
Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2011 13:26:10
Message-Id: 4E3A9D9B.4090100@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] Preparations Council meeting 2011-08-09 by Patrick Lauer
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4 On 08/01/2011 05:51 PM, Patrick Lauer wrote:
5 > On 07/29/11 19:55, Fabian Groffen wrote:
6 >> With a bit more than a week ahead of us for the next council meeting,
7 >> I'd like to start preparing the agenda, given that current practice
8 >> still is to send it out a week in advance.
9 >
10 > A small thing which I've brought up for discussion twice (and both times
11 > it was mostly ignored), but which I'd really like to see discussed or
12 > even agreed on:
13 >
14 > A simple policy making signed commits mandatory, plus a simple policy on
15 > key length, permissible encryption/signature algorithms, and a
16 > well-defined place where (public) keys are made available for verifying
17 > and checking the validity of the signatures.
18 >
19 >
20
21 IMHO:
22 Key Length: 2048
23 Enc/Sig: RSA Signatures, sha256 hashes
24 Last part: Still working on that.
25
26 Which reminds me, I need to get moving on that. I've been swamped at
27 work for the past couple weeks, so I've been scarce. More on all of this
28 soon hopefully.
29
30 > It would greatly improve the current status quo and remove any ambiguity
31 > which might motivate people to use a 4-bit key for signing to be within
32 > the letter of the law.
33 >
34 >
35 > Thanks,
36 >
37 > Patrick
38 >
39
40 Regards,
41 - --
42 Dane Smith (c1pher)
43 Gentoo Linux Developer -- QA / Crypto / Sunrise / x86
44 RSA Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?search=0x0C2E1531&op=index
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Re: [gentoo-project] Preparations Council meeting 2011-08-09 Patrick Lauer <patrick@g.o>