svn commit: r40831 - in projects/ISBN_1-57176-407-0/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook: . preface

Glen Barber gjb at FreeBSD.org
Thu Jan 31 00:13:10 UTC 2013


On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 01:42:28PM -0800, Xin Li wrote:
> The reason why PGP keys should appear in printed book and DVDs is that
> this establishes a way to start your trust chain with.  It's wrong to
> blindly trust www.freebsd.org to be offering the right keys.
> 
> At very least, the book should have public key for the "Officers", and
> probably also the fingerprint part of everyone's public key but with
> public block part omitted.
> 

I agree some keys should be included (so@, portmgr-secretary@,
core-secretary@).  IMHO, printing all keys is wasteful.  Also, there is
the problem of expired keys.

For the "trust" issue, one can always build the pgp keys on a trusted
system from the doc/ repository, and use that as the keyring import.

Glen

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