From: Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-security@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-security] Regeneration of gpg keys after HeartBleed
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 09:28:23 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGfcS_n_54n1JgKXSB8et1XPXJfK4cFFTzdd93WdXQ4p6DogfQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <534C5927.1000800@gentoo.org>
On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 5:54 PM, Alex Legler <a3li@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On 09.04.2014 18:39, Jo wrote:
>> Hi all, this is my first post in this list, so again Hi all!
>>
>> I'm a bit concerned about the signing keys of the portage tree releases,
>> I know that gpg is not the same as openssl but keeping in mind that SSH,
>> VPN, HTTPS keys might be compromised for two years, don't you think it's
>> a healthy measure to generate a new pair of keys?
>
> GPG private keys are kept and used nowhere near any server processes,
> not transferred via HTTPS or any VPNs, and SSH is not affected. I don't
> see an immediate need to rotate them.
Agree. Also, in a few months whenever the new GPG policy GLEP is
implemented I suspect that many keys will be regenerated anyway.
Rich
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-15 13:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-09 16:39 [gentoo-security] Regeneration of gpg keys after HeartBleed Jo
2014-04-09 17:01 ` Luis Ressel
2014-04-09 19:21 ` Chris Frederick
2014-04-10 23:45 ` Matthias Niethammer
2014-04-14 21:54 ` Alex Legler
2014-04-15 13:28 ` Rich Freeman [this message]
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