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On 02/01/19 08:25, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> On Thu, 2019-01-31 at 12:33 -0500, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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>> On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 8:56 AM Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote: |
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>>> |
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>>> 1. It is entirely customary and therefore requires customized software |
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>>> to use. In other words, it's of limited usefulness to people outside |
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>>> Gentoo or does not work out of the box there. |
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>> This part could be addressed easily by having Gentoo create a signing |
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>> key, and automatically signing all dev keys based on LDAP using it. |
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>> Then users can trust that one key and inherit trust for the rest. |
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>> |
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>> Users have to opt into the trust model by trusting somebody's key no |
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>> matter what. No reason that couldn't be a centrally-managed one. |
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>> I'll also agree with the comment that physically interacting with |
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>> people is not all that easy. There are many areas of the world where |
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>> FOSS developers are relatively uncommon, let alone Gentoo ones. |
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>> Unless those alternate organizations have VERY broad coverage (such as |
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>> an alternative of a notary recognized by any country or something like |
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>> that) you're still going to have issues. |
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>>> Verify the person's real name (at least for the user identifier |
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>>> used for copyright purposes). This is usually done through |
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>>> verifying an identification document with photograph. It is |
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>>> a good idea to ask for the document type earlier, and read on |
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>>> forgery protections used. |
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>> "usually"? "identification document"? Does this mean that an |
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>> appropriate method of verification is entirely up to individual |
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>> discretion? If so that makes the process of getting every key signed |
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>> fairly trivial as long as two people have (in?)appropriately-rigorous |
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>> standards... |
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>> |
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> I'm sorry, I keep forgetting that you can't rely on people in Gentoo |
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> being mature and you need to specify everything as 'MUST' and 'MUST |
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> NOT', or otherwise they are going to ignore the spirit of the policy |
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> and violate in the worst way permitted by bending the wording. |
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> |
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You started this thread with what distinctly appeared to be a plea to |
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avoid ad hominem attacks, just to turn around make make them yourself. |
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Do, kindly, stop it. |
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