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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 16:36:56
Message-Id: 4E849E7A.5000104@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] Re: [gentoo-dev] Manifest signing by Mike Frysinger
1 On 09/29/2011 12:23 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
2 > On Thursday, September 29, 2011 11:11:59 Patrick Lauer wrote:
3 >> On 09/29/11 17:04, Tony "Chainsaw" Vroon wrote:
4 >>> On 29/09/11 16:02, Anthony G. Basile wrote:
5 >>>> Is there any chance that we can agree to reject
6 >>>> unsigned manifests? Possibly a question for the Council to adjudicate?
7 >>> I am happy to back a mandatory signing policy for the main gentoo-x86
8 >>> tree. This is a simple yes or no question that the council can vote on.
9 >> As previously discussed it would be nice to have some basic key policies
10 >> in place for that - they can be changed at any later time, but for now
11 >> we could agree on basic parameters like, say -
12 >>
13 >> at least 1024bit key length
14 >> at least 6 months validity from creation
15 >> one or more algorithms (initially DSA signatures and SHA1 hashing)
16 > there's nothing to decide as it was already outlined long ago in the docs:
17 > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=2&chap=6
18 >
19 > if you want to *refine* that, then that's a different issue. but the devs
20 > already have all the info they need to start signing now.
21 > -mike
22
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 --
30 Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D.
31 Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened]
32 E-Mail : blueness@g.o
33 GnuPG FP : 8040 5A4D 8709 21B1 1A88 33CE 979C AF40 D045 5535
34 GnuPG ID : D0455535

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