On Wed, 2020-10-21 at 14:35 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 2:20 PM Joe Perches <j...@perches.com> wrote: > > While secure solutions are useful, I really wonder if > > "George Spelvin" is a real person. > > It's not his real name, no, but he's a real person. > > I do have his real name from years ago when I needed to confirm his > identity for sign-offs (I forget what for, I think it was some dcache > name hashing thing). > > So I can confirm he's a real person who just wants to keep private, > and is competent when it comes to hashing and security.
I hope that real name is in some escrow somewhere and not just in some long thrown away spinning rust disk. And because George isn't a real name and contributions by him have been accepted, the DCO should be updated to show how pseudonymous contributions can be made.
