Gentoo Archives: gentoo-project

From: "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@g.o>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Cc: Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] pre-GLEP: Gentoo OpenPGP web of trust
Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2019 12:51:13
Message-Id: 516346270.SVv7vubeFm@porto
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] pre-GLEP: Gentoo OpenPGP web of trust by Rich Freeman
1 Am Donnerstag, 31. Januar 2019, 18:33:25 CET schrieb Rich Freeman:
2 > On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 8:56 AM Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
3 > > 1. It is entirely customary and therefore requires customized software
4 > >
5 > > to use. In other words, it's of limited usefulness to people outside
6 > > Gentoo or does not work out of the box there.
7 >
8 > This part could be addressed easily by having Gentoo create a signing
9 > key, and automatically signing all dev keys based on LDAP using it.
10 > Then users can trust that one key and inherit trust for the rest.
11 >
12 > Users have to opt into the trust model by trusting somebody's key no
13 > matter what. No reason that couldn't be a centrally-managed one.
14
15 Nitpicking: Gentoo infra would only sign a @gentoo.org uid, and whether it
16 should contain a name or not would need to be defined (and published somewhere
17 as signature policy).
18
19 But yes, that is a (different) obvious way to go.
20
21 --
22 Andreas K. Hüttel
23 dilfridge@g.o
24 Gentoo Linux developer
25 (council, toolchain, base-system, perl, libreoffice)

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