From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B578523EAA3 for ; Fri, 23 Jan 2026 09:29:32 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1769160572; cv=none; b=UHj3WUgKWUTouHJd8jn6oy8uU9wXYtebSabb4ESRXIKJP5FAIili/B8b4KILtjBQLfxtbwMHNabxgKY1UoSgZel+0cgOcCFpvQaNMUtgfpZ/KflaNbM6ot5SeBAXnCJHaJxdYv98jklN1l032qwRNX5qk0ptVBLJk9gHK77HzUk= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1769160572; c=relaxed/simple; bh=w8X/jidkqemvuNJKXW7L9A5PFZf9bDNonoiVWlyL5OM=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=LKgfyotJVvCV2sdRslafnf5xEVC1/UZX6X13SVrDqYL0REhCeCmc02FcOlskIQim7RjkfnGjQtAIL15BlTLD8+x/Ui0QAqoVPTnZ48SjCpwbXsmDv9s5Rd7pFyv8drPBLcbjfMzdpg4EmVF8FJWvrz9buV6Op+H6AFbaj5maPtA= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b=d1TYaWgA; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b="d1TYaWgA" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7A4D0C116D0; Fri, 23 Jan 2026 09:29:31 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1769160572; bh=w8X/jidkqemvuNJKXW7L9A5PFZf9bDNonoiVWlyL5OM=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=d1TYaWgAGrmI5T0mdovj+YRzX8B8fjPUJ/c4uzZsDRV3mmSrtxegY0XdQqn3xgO6Y YViyIIuVhhEGAQpSxruAJeo6UaJYkKwpZNJ1rvwmfztYMEPfxj+xTBHukF3zaSyT9i b87Xjd8ylpW/QcCsTGTvZ/eRsHlCv7WACFBfWUG0= Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2026 10:29:28 +0100 From: Greg KH To: Uwe =?iso-8859-1?Q?Kleine-K=F6nig?= Cc: Konstantin Ryabitsev , users@kernel.org, ksummit@lists.linux.dev Subject: Re: Web of Trust work [Was: kernel.org tooling update] Message-ID: <2026012340-cannot-spud-5d46@gregkh> References: <20251209-roaring-hidden-alligator-068eea@lemur> <6e0c8c00-4efe-432a-92e8-c51aa15b4a34@kernel.org> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: ksummit@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <6e0c8c00-4efe-432a-92e8-c51aa15b4a34@kernel.org> On Fri, Jan 23, 2026 at 10:19:56AM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > Hello Konstantin, > > On 12/10/25 05:48, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote: > > ## Web of Trust work > > > > There is an ongoing work to replace our home-grown web of trust solution (that > > does work but has important bottlenecks and scaling limitations) with > > something both more distributed and easier to maintain. We're working with > > OpenSSF to design the framework and I hope to present it to the community in > > the next few months. > > the current home-grown solution is https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/kernel/pgpkeys.git/, right? > > I wonder what the bottlenecks and scaling limitations are that you mention. > > Is there some info available already now about the path you (and OpenSSF) intend to propose? There will be a presentation about this in February at a conference and hopefully it will be made public then as the work is still ongoing. thanks, greg k-h