Maintaining the kernel's web of trust

Posted Sep 4, 2019 14:31 UTC (Wed) by pabs (subscriber, #43278)
Parent article: Maintaining the kernel's web of trust

There are proposals in progress that will restore support of the web of trust to keyserver networks, so it seems a bit premature to create a Linux-specific WoT solution.

Maintaining the kernel's web of trust

Posted Sep 4, 2019 15:04 UTC (Wed) by mricon (subscriber, #59252) [Link]

If there's a new WoT-friendly key distribution mechanism in the future, there's nothing preventing us from switching to it and deprecating the pgpkeys.git repository. There is no such mechanism right now, and the need to share updated key data required some kind of immediate solution.