On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 13:58:07 -0700
Lance Cottrell <[email protected]> wrote:

> I have generated or signed most of the keys over the years. It is
> worth some thought on how best to manage these keys to prevent
> another loss of continuity. 

Can we use a secret sharing system?  Say, one person who has the
signing key, and three shares required to compute that secret key
should that one person pass?

Or, if anyone knows a well-developed threshold signature system for
PGP, we could use that.

-- Ben

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> Lance Cottrell
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> On Jun 12, 2012, at 9:34 AM, Colin Tuckley <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Zax and I have started doing some updates with a view to putting
> > out a new Mixmaster release. There are several minor bug fixes and
> > updates to things like the pingers list that make a release
> > worthwhile.
> > 
> > However there is a minor problem. The release signing key:
> > 
> > 2048R/2993D5F9 2007-07-03 Mixmaster 3.x Code Release Signing Key
> > 
> > has expired. That key was held by Len Sassaman who died last year.
> > 
> > If nobody objects then I will create a new key and ask those that
> > know me to sign it.
> > 
> > Comments and suggestions please.
> > 
> > Colin
> > 
> > -- 
> > Colin Tuckley      |  +44(0)1223 830814  |  PGP/GnuPG Key Id
> > Debian Developer   |  +44(0)7799 143369  |     0x1B3045CE
> > 
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