Re: Reminder: Removing < 2048 bit keys from the Debian keyrings
On 8 November 2014 17:05, Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org> wrote:
> On Sat, November 8, 2014 17:09, Jonathan McDowell wrote:
>> We had hoped to be down to a small number of special cases to deal with
>> by this point, but with the numbers still looking this bad we're not
>> yet at a stage where we can work out appropriate next steps for those
>> special cases.
>
> In the list you post, I see lots of names of people I know to be inactive
> for years now. Removing all those keys from the ring would therefore maybe
> not be such a disaster, because the majority is no longer regularly
> contributing to Debian.
>
> To make this a bit more concrete, I've matched the uids against echelon,
> and this is the outcome:
>
> 160 2014
Can the keys last used in 2013 or earlier (and not yet special cased /
migrating) be moved to non-uploading keyring?
This should not have any impact - no recent uploading usage, yet can
vote still be a DD, etc.
> 42 2013
> 54 2012
> 31 2011
> 24 2010
> 31 2009
> 21 2008
> 17 2007
> 7 2006
> 5 2005
> 2 2004
> 1 2003
> 1 2002
>
> So 160 keys were used this year, which is cause for concern if they are
> removed. However, it means 236 keys have not seen use in 2014 yet. And of
> those 160 keys have been used most recently in 2011; of those we can be
> rather certain that removing their key from the ring actually confirms the
> status quo rather than disrupt it.
>
> It therefore makes sense not to focus on the number of 436, but on the
> ones that have actually been used in 2014; get that first number of 160
> closer to 0.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Thijs
>
>
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Regards,
Dimitri.
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