Bug#732450: please sign new apache releases only with strong keys -- trimming the KEYS file

2013-12-27 Thread Arno Töll
Hi, On 27.12.2013 00:18, Nick Kew wrote: What is Debian's view on the relative importance of key size vs breadth and depth of the WoT surrounding a key? I would tend to find an ancient 1024-bit key with 100 strong-set sigs much more reassuring than a shiny new 4096-bit with just 1 (let alone

Bug#732450: please sign new apache releases only with strong keys -- trimming the KEYS file

2013-12-27 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 12/26/2013 06:18 PM, Nick Kew wrote: You're ahead of us. Individual Apache folks like Jim have taken responsibility and moved to 4096-bit keys, but we haven't as a community had the discussion that might lead to pruning KEYS. My inclination is to say NO to requiring anyone to remove old

Bug#732450: please sign new apache releases only with strong keys -- trimming the KEYS file

2013-12-27 Thread Frederick Miller
Please remove me from this email list. Please unsubscribe me. Thanks. On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 10:49 AM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor d...@fifthhorseman.net wrote: On 12/26/2013 06:18 PM, Nick Kew wrote: You're ahead of us. Individual Apache folks like Jim have taken responsibility and moved to

Bug#732450: please sign new apache releases only with strong keys -- trimming the KEYS file

2013-12-26 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Hi apache folks-- In http://bugs.debian.org/732450, debian is preparing to cryptographically verify OpenPGP signatures on apache upstream tarballs. As part of the dicsussion, it's become clear that some of the keys in https://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/KEYS are weak by any modern consideration of

Bug#732450: please sign new apache releases only with strong keys -- trimming the KEYS file

2013-12-26 Thread Nick Kew
On 26 Dec 2013, at 21:47, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: As part of the dicsussion, it's become clear that some of the keys in https://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/KEYS are weak by any modern consideration of public key cryptography. Could this set of keys be pruned? You're ahead of us.