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Re: Lack of detached signatures

From
Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Date
Sep 29, 2011, 14:40 UTC
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Heya,
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 15:18, Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:
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> Handset manufacturers such as Samsung, HTC, Motorola, etc., there will
> be many of those reprsenatives at LinuxCon Europe and CELF (Consumer
> Electronics Linux Forum) Europe conferences, which will be colocated
> with the Kernel Summit in Prague.
>
> If you are thinking of random developers located in far-flung places
> of the world who don't have any contact with other Linux developers,
> this is a previously unsolved problem.  There are links into the
> developing Kernel GPG tree that are signed by the GPG web trust used
> by Debian, OpenSuSE, and (soon) Fedora.  Given that people generally
> have to trust one or more of those web of trusts, that's the best we
> can do, at least as far as I know.  If you can suggest something
> better, please let me know!

This all sounds very interesting. Where is this discussion on a new web of trust taking place? The kernel mailing list? Do you have a message-id / gmane.org link for me to read more about this perhaps?

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier
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Message 16 of 24 in “Lack of detached signatures”
  1. Joseph ParmeleeSep 27, 2011
  2. Junio C HamanoSep 28, 2011
  3. Michael WittenSep 28, 2011
  4. Olsen, Alan RSep 28, 2011
  5. Carlos Martín NietoSep 28, 2011
  6. Joseph ParmeleeSep 28, 2011
  7. Junio C HamanoSep 28, 2011
  8. Michael WittenSep 28, 2011
  9. Matthieu MoySep 28, 2011
  10. Jeff KingSep 28, 2011
  11. Ted Ts'oSep 28, 2011
  12. Junio C HamanoSep 29, 2011
  13. Ted Ts'oSep 29, 2011
  14. Junio C HamanoSep 29, 2011
  15. Ted Ts'oSep 29, 2011
  16. Sverre RabbelierSep 29, 2011
  17. Ted Ts'oSep 29, 2011
  18. Sverre RabbelierSep 29, 2011
  19. Joseph ParmeleeSep 29, 2011
  20. Joseph ParmeleeSep 29, 2011
  21. Jeff KingSep 29, 2011
  22. Olsen, Alan RSep 29, 2011
  23. Joseph ParmeleeSep 28, 2011
  24. Ben WaltonSep 28, 2011

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