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From: Cynede <cynede@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] pre-GLEP: Gentoo OpenPGP web of trust
Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2019 18:17:33 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <669c7c1c053bb2845459a22c83d8c8322020aafa.camel@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3018116.TxlsP8b7va@porto>

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On Fri, 2019-02-01 at 13:47 +0100, Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
> > I don't see anything in glep 76 about requiring verification of the
> > signatures.  It's my view (as trustee) that assertation by the
> > signer
> > that 'this is my signature' is sufficient.
> 
> ^ This. 
> 
> It's not our business to check IDs, and it's not our business to
> stalk people 
> on google or facebook.
> 
> Now if someone says "Here's my name, and actually it is a fake name",
> then 
> that is a reason to refuse commit rights or patch acceptance, and
> probably ask 
> for some sort of verification when another name is then given. 
> 
> (That behaviour is roughly as intelligent as walking up to the
> security guy at 
> the airport and claiming loudly "I have a bomb in my luggage.")
> 
> Apart from that, I dont think we should care.
> 

I agree.

I'd like Gentoo to support pseudonyms (for the purposes of privacy) as
FSF projects does, and in that case ID/webcam verification with OpenPGP
keys being signed by members of trustee makes real sense. (probably
that could be off-topic here)


Cynede

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  reply	other threads:[~2019-02-01 14:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-01-31 13:56 [gentoo-project] pre-GLEP: Gentoo OpenPGP web of trust Michał Górny
2019-01-31 14:21 ` Brian Evans
2019-01-31 15:33   ` Matthew Thode
2019-02-01  2:48   ` Sam Jorna (wraeth)
2019-02-01  6:57   ` Michał Górny
2019-02-01 14:43     ` Brian Evans
2019-02-02  6:00     ` desultory
2019-01-31 15:32 ` Matthew Thode
2019-02-01 12:47   ` Andreas K. Huettel
2019-02-01 14:17     ` Cynede [this message]
2019-02-01 14:32       ` Rich Freeman
2019-02-01 14:53         ` Kristian Fiskerstrand
2019-02-01 17:27           ` Kristian Fiskerstrand
2019-02-01 20:46             ` Rich Freeman
2019-02-02  6:02     ` desultory
2019-02-01 14:20   ` Michał Górny
2019-01-31 16:33 ` Kristian Fiskerstrand
2019-01-31 16:35 ` Alec Warner
2019-01-31 20:29   ` Kristian Fiskerstrand
2019-01-31 21:40     ` Alec Warner
2019-01-31 22:00       ` Kristian Fiskerstrand
2019-01-31 22:49       ` Michael Orlitzky
2019-02-01  0:09         ` Rich Freeman
2019-02-01  0:47           ` Kristian Fiskerstrand
2019-01-31 17:33 ` Rich Freeman
2019-02-01 12:51   ` Andreas K. Huettel
2019-02-01 13:25   ` Michał Górny
2019-02-02  5:55     ` desultory
2019-02-02 13:47       ` Rich Freeman
2019-01-31 19:25 ` Kristian Fiskerstrand
2019-02-01  0:41 ` Chris Reffett
2019-02-01  0:42   ` Kristian Fiskerstrand
2019-02-01  0:55     ` Chris Reffett
2019-02-01  1:56       ` Rich Freeman
2019-02-01 12:52         ` Andreas K. Huettel
2019-02-02  5:54 ` desultory

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