On Sat, Feb 8, 2020 at 10:25 PM Kevin Fenzi <ke...@scrye.com> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 08, 2020 at 08:59:40PM +0100, Björn Persson wrote: > > Josh Boyer wrote: > > > > We may want to replace it with a simple Web Key Directory server: > > > > https://wiki.gnupg.org/WKD > > > > > > > > That would make it easy to lookup keys based on @fedoraproject.org > > > > email addresses, and since keys can be replaced in the directory, it > > > > avoids the problems with SKS attacks. > > > > > > I don't see that being valuable enough to actually invest the effort > > > into doing it and maintaining it long term. If others are interested > > > in hosting such a service, that would likely be welcome. > > > > If such others were to step up to do the work, would they be able to > > get the access needed to run it on Fedora infrastructure and integrate > > with FAS? > > Fas is on life support mode, but something could be added to the new > coming account system interface. >
Feel free to add anything as an issue and tag myself (lgriffin) within the issue and we can consider it for sure. > > > > Note that a Web Key Directory can't be run as a third-party service. > > It's a fundamental feature of the protocol that the directory server > > exists in the same domain as the email address. Technically a subdomain > > could be delegated, but this isn't a thing that should be tossed up on > > the first cloud service handy, because an intruder in the server would > > be able to replace people's keys and impersonate them. > > keys.openpgp.org offers a WKD as a service thing: > > https://keys.openpgp.org/about/usage > > > > I think a Web Key Directory server would be good for the Fedora > > Project's security, but it should run on hardware under the Fedora > > Project's control. > > Possibly. I'm really not sure how much it would be used. > > kevin > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > -- Leigh Griffin Engineering Manager Red Hat Waterford <https://www.redhat.com/> Communications House Cork Road, Waterford City lgrif...@redhat.com M: +353877545162 IM: lgriffin @redhatjobs <https://twitter.com/redhatjobs> redhatjobs <https://www.facebook.com/redhatjobs> @redhatjobs <https://instagram.com/redhatjobs> <https://red.ht/sig>
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