W dniu śro, 25.07.2018 o godzinie 01∶28 -0400, użytkownik Joshua Kinard
napisał:
> On 7/8/2018 2:38 PM, Michał Górny wrote:
> > Replace the 'Gentoo subkey' term that might wrongly suggest that
> > the developers are expected to create an additional, dedicated subkey
> > for Gentoo.
> > 
> > Suggested-by: Kristian Fiskerstrand <[email protected]>
> > ---
> >  glep-0063.rst | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/glep-0063.rst b/glep-0063.rst
> > index 0773e3b..f02537d 100644
> > --- a/glep-0063.rst
> > +++ b/glep-0063.rst
> > @@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ Recommendations
> >  
> >     a. Root key: 3 years maximum, expiry date renewed annually.
> >  
> > -   b. Gentoo subkey: 1 year maximum, expiry date renewed every 6 months.
> > +   b. Signing subkey: 1 year maximum, expiry date renewed every 6 months.
> >  
> >  5. Create a revocation certificate & store it hardcopy offsite securely
> >     (it's about ~300 bytes).
> > 
> 
> I lost track of this due to other priorities, but picking through some of the
> follow-up messages about the lead time on renewals and all, I don't have a
> problem with that.  But why is the maximum of one year on subkey/signing key
> expiration still here?

Because I've started with small changes, and the thing you're asking
about is changed in a followup patch.  Please read the final text
instead of wrongly assuming something from irrelevant change.

> 
> I'm not seeing a lot of additional follow-up on that, but that is still too
> short.  Two years is perfectly fine in this case.  I'd prefer three years
> myself, but am willing to compromise for two.  I am not doing one year unless
> someone drops some really convincing logic on me.  And no, scrawling "logic" 
> on
> the side of an anvil doesn't count.
> 
> Does anyone know what the other projects require for their keys?  Without a
> proper explanation of //why// one year needs to be the maximum, looking to 
> what
> other projects use seems sensible for guidance.
> 
> I can't seem to find any specific guidance from Debian, but FreeBSD appears to
> be fine with three years on their committer keys:
> 
> """
> A three year key lifespan is short enough to obsolete keys weakened by
> advancing computer power, but long enough to reduce key management problems.
> """
> 
> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/article.html#pgpkeys
> 

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny

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