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authorSeongJae Park <sjpark@amazon.de>2021-08-12 09:50:30 +0000
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>2021-08-24 13:23:21 -0600
commit59c6a716b14ba3092ea685b6274d5233c18cc194 (patch)
treed6e1e39987833ab010b6409a09747a0a88973c94 /Documentation/process
parent8c7a729d09644dafbb90207c35cab495d3a33175 (diff)
Documentation/process/maintainer-pgp-guide: Replace broken link to PGP path finder
PGP pathfinder[1], which is suggested for finding a trust path to unknown PGP keys by 'maintainer-pgp-guide.rst', is not working now. This commit replaces it with other available tools. [1] https://pgp.cs.uu.nl/ Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sjpark@amazon.de> Reviewed-by: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210812095030.4704-2-sj38.park@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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diff --git a/Documentation/process/maintainer-pgp-guide.rst b/Documentation/process/maintainer-pgp-guide.rst
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--- a/Documentation/process/maintainer-pgp-guide.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/maintainer-pgp-guide.rst
@@ -944,12 +944,11 @@ have on your keyring::
uid [ unknown] Linus Torvalds <torvalds@kernel.org>
sub rsa2048 2011-09-20 [E]
-Next, open the `PGP pathfinder`_. In the "From" field, paste the key
-fingerprint of Linus Torvalds from the output above. In the "To" field,
-paste the key-id you found via ``gpg --search`` of the unknown key, and
-check the results:
-
-- `Finding paths to Linus`_
+Next, find a trust path from Linus Torvalds to the key-id you found via ``gpg
+--search`` of the unknown key. For this, you can use several tools including
+https://github.com/mricon/wotmate,
+https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/kernel/pgpkeys.git/tree/graphs, and
+https://the.earth.li/~noodles/pathfind.html.
If you get a few decent trust paths, then it's a pretty good indication
that it is a valid key. You can add it to your keyring from the
@@ -962,6 +961,3 @@ administrators of the PGP Pathfinder service to not be malicious (in
fact, this goes against :ref:`devs_not_infra`). However, if you
do not carefully maintain your own web of trust, then it is a marked
improvement over blindly trusting keyservers.
-
-.. _`PGP pathfinder`: https://pgp.cs.uu.nl/
-.. _`Finding paths to Linus`: https://pgp.cs.uu.nl/paths/79BE3E4300411886/to/C94035C21B4F2AEB.html