From 59c6a716b14ba3092ea685b6274d5233c18cc194 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: SeongJae Park Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2021 09:50:30 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Reviewed-by: Konstantin Ryabitsev Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210812095030.4704-2-sj38.park@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet --- Documentation/process/maintainer-pgp-guide.rst | 14 +++++--------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/process/maintainer-pgp-guide.rst b/Documentation/process/maintainer-pgp-guide.rst index 8f8f1fe..29e7d7b 100644 --- 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 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 -- 2.7.4