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Re: Keysigning in times of COVID-19



Le jeudi 13 août 2020 à 14:29:35+0200, Guilhem Moulin a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, 13 Aug 2020 at 14:11:14 +0200, Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote:
> > Le jeudi 13 août 2020 à 07:42:29-0400, Sam Hartman a écrit :
> >>>>>>> "Paul" == Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> writes:
> >> 
> >>   Paul> On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 3:27 PM Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote:
> >>   >> I'd rather try to solve the issue in a more sensible way : lower
> >>   >> the number of expected GPG signatures to 0 temporarily, and ask
> >>   >> for two or three advocacies from DDs.
> >> 
> >>   Paul> This seems like the most natural solution to the problem of
> >>   Paul> COVID mentioned thus far.
> >> 
> >> How do you feel about the idea of short-term expirations on signatures
> >> proposed in the previous message on the list?
> > 
> > Unless I missed a GPG capability, this seems kinda technically hard to
> > do.
> 
> gpg has a `--ask-cert-expire` flag and a `--default-cert-expire` option
> in that effect.  Expired certification signatures will be ignored when
> building the Web of Trust.
> 
> Cheers

This could work, but we'd have to handle the case when developers forget
to set a signature as time-limited/don't follow this thread and never
care to set it up.

I'd rather avoid relying on signatures, than making the meaning of
signature quite less tangible.

-- 
Pierre-Elliott Bécue
GPG: 9AE0 4D98 6400 E3B6 7528  F493 0D44 2664 1949 74E2
It's far easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

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