From: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt•net>
To: Andrey Utkin <andrey.od.utkin@gmail•com>
Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff•net>,
linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org, git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: Don't use PGP/GPG signatures in mail that contains patches
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2016 21:05:47 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160119210547.GA2822@dcvr.yhbt.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <569E2398.2050206@gmail.com>
Andrey Utkin <andrey.od.utkin@gmail•com> wrote:
> But still, if we encourage signing maillist correspondence, we would
> avoid impersonation attacks. Imagine that somebody sends stupid
> submissions from your name, maintainers shout at you, and your
> reputataion is... changed. Of course, you will be able to sort things
> out after you read the replies and reply that it's not you. But, given
> to openness of maillists, the attacker is able to follow your replies
> and insert his ones. Or to reply to your valid submissions that they are
> not from you.
Is impersonation an actual problem on vger.kernel.org lists?
Reply-to-all conventions on these lists do a great deal to discourage them.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-19 21:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-18 1:27 Don't use PGP/GPG signatures in mail that contains patches Andrey Utkin
2016-01-18 21:48 ` Jeff King
2016-01-19 11:52 ` Andrey Utkin
2016-01-19 21:05 ` Eric Wong [this message]
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