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Re: State of the debian keyring



On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 09:10:00PM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 10:51:56AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> > Gunnar Wolf <gwolf@gwolf.org> writes:
> > > Ian Jackson dijo [Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 05:57:57PM +0000]:
> > 
> > >> I think this is a bug.
> > >> 
> > >> It can increase security because it can make operations more
> > >> convenient at the same level of security, and because people trade off
> > >> convenience for security.
> > >> 
> > >> For example, it would be possible to have one key for email encryption
> > >> and a different (more secure) key for package uploads.
> > 
> > > Debian tools don't care which key you use for email encryption.
> > 
> > Except for project DPL votes, no?
> 
> I think the keys are used for voting and the email interfance for
> db.debian.org.  I'm not sure if we have any other services
> checking the gpg signatures of emails.

echelon checks the keyring, also.

-- 
Luca Filipozzi
http://www.crowdrise.com/SupportDebian

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