From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.180.0/23 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-6.0 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99DC71F6DC for ; Wed, 25 Jan 2017 01:32:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751203AbdAYBch (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Jan 2017 20:32:37 -0500 Received: from dcvr.yhbt.net ([64.71.152.64]:55630 "EHLO dcvr.yhbt.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751068AbdAYBcf (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Jan 2017 20:32:35 -0500 Received: from localhost (dcvr.yhbt.net [127.0.0.1]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A201D1F437; Wed, 25 Jan 2017 01:32:33 +0000 (UTC) Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2017 01:32:33 +0000 From: Eric Wong To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Stefan Beller , cornelius.weig@tngtech.com, Johannes Sixt , bitte.keine.werbung.einwerfen@googlemail.com, git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano , thomas.braun@virtuell-zuhause.de, John Keeping Subject: Re: Message-ID: <20170125013233.GA16463@starla> References: <923cd4e4-5c9c-4eaf-0fea-6deff6875b88@tngtech.com> <20170125002116.22111-1-sbeller@google.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 4:21 PM, Stefan Beller wrote: > > > > +Do not PGP sign your patch. Most likely, your maintainer or other > > +people on the list would not have your PGP key and would not bother > > +obtaining it anyway. > > I think even that could be further simplified - by just removing all > comments about pgp email > > Because it's not that the PGP keys would be hard to get, it's that > PGP-signed email is an abject failure, and nobody sane does it. > > Google for "phil zimmerman doesn't use pgp email". > > It's dead. So I'm not sure it's worth mentioning at all. I disagree, we still see it, and Debian still advocates it. In fact, we may also want to mention S/MIME in the same breath: https://public-inbox.org/git/20170110004031.57985-2-hansenr@google.com/ Richard's more recent mails seem to indicate he's reformed :)