On 5/11/20 8:20 PM, Aisha Tammy wrote:
> Hi devs@,
>  Seems like for some reason the gentoo.org does not publish the 
> gpg public keys of the senders, even though it is signed correctly.
> 

Sorry, I meant **mail signing**, not commit signing.
Just saw that wording was confusing.

> Just wanted to know why the devs are required to use gpg keys, glep63 [1]
> but even when the server has the public keys, they aren't published properly.
> 
> From a proper security perspective, I would have though something 
> like WKD[2] would have been implemented on the server side for automated
> authentication.
> 
> Maybe I am missing something about how to verify the keys of the maintainers
> who are sending announcements but it irks me a teensy bit when i have signed
> mails and I can't ~~trust~~ verify the signatures.
> 
> This is tots an aside from normal gentoo stuff.
> 
> Hope ya'll are safe,
> Aisha
> 
> 
> 
> [1] 
> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Infrastructure/Generating_GLEP_63_based_OpenPGP_keys
> [2] https://wiki.gnupg.org/WKD
> 


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