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Re: PROPOSAL: GPG Signing of Releases

From: <kfogel_at_collab.net>
Date: 2004-04-09 19:05:44 CEST

In case your mailreader threaded these in reverse order (mine did),
please note that Ben sent this as the *second* of his two recent
mails, that is, he wrote the one quoted below after he sent
<20040409172131.GJ18848@occipital.brain.org>.

-Karl

Ben Reser <ben@reser.org> writes:
> On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 11:05:38AM -0500, kfogel@collab.net wrote:
> > Okay, I think I've had an epiphany :-).
> >
> > There is nothing preventing any group of developers from getting
> > together, generating a shared key, signing it with their personal keys
> > (and those of anyone else they can persuade), and then using the
> > shared key to sign the release.
> >
> > So, those of us who want to do that for the next release will just do
> > it. That will probably include at least those of us in Chicago. I
> > hope no one will mind if we call it the "SVN Release Key" or something
> > similarly official-sounding. There's no reason to have two such keys,
> > after all -- anyone who wants to can just sign this one (we can easily
> > generate trust paths).
> >
> > If it later turns out to be a pain to manage, we just stop doing it.
> > Some release announcement would simply say "We have stopped using a
> > shared key to sign releases, due to key management concerns [or
> > whatever], but we continue to sign with personal keys."
> >
> > In essence, this is Ben's proposal, on an experimental basis. Why
> > speculate about problems that might come up, when we can just wing it?
> > There's very little penalty for guessing wrong here, after all.
>
> I'm fine with this. I'll certainly go the extra mile to do whatever
> things need to be done to aid in the key management.
>
> --
> Ben Reser <ben@reser.org>
> http://ben.reser.org
>
> "Conscience is the inner voice which warns us somebody may be looking."
> - H.L. Mencken
>
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