Gentoo Archives: gentoo-nfp

From: Roy Bamford <neddyseagoon@g.o>
To: Matthew Thode <mthode@××××××.org>
Cc: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>, gentoo-nfp@l.g.o, trustees@g.o
Subject: [gentoo-nfp] Re: PGP fingerprints of Foundation members (item for Trustees meeting)
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2017 18:23:32
Message-Id: I6Clo4HzDkRyqsJmbSMsz1@1kxnj5prLVf01jtbzNDSI
1 On 2017.08.03 12:16, Matthew Thode wrote:
2 > To be clear, a list of full key IDs with verification (some sort of
3 > video chat maybe) of the fingerprint. Said fingerprint would be
4 > recorded in git (signed commits and pushes to verify trust of the
5 > fingerprints).
6 >
7 > On August 3, 2017 6:13:13 AM CDT, Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
8 > wrote:
9 > >As discussed with prometheanfire in #gentoo-trustees, I am suggesting
10 > >the following as an item for the (September?) Trustees meeting.
11 > >
12 > >Apparently, the Foundation only has a list of PGP key IDs in
13 > >https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Foundation:Member_List. Even worse, most
14 > >IDs listed there are only 32 bit IDs, providing no security at all.
15 > >
16 > >I would like to ask the Foundation to keep a list with the (160 bit)
17 > >PGP fingerprints of its members. (For developers, this information
18 > >should be readily available in LDAP.)
19 > >
20 > >Ulrich
21 >
22 > --
23 > Sent from Kaiten Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
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26 What do we need to prove?
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28 That the the key belongs to a given individual or just that the key on the vote
29 is the same as the key used for the membership application.?
30
31 The former involves a web of trust of some sort and we don't do that for devs
32 joining the distro.
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34 I suggest that the latter is suffcient but the web of trust would be nice to have.
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36 Agreed tht the 32 bit key IDs need to be improved.
37 --
38 Regards,
39
40 Roy Bamford
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