Re: [PATCH] encrypted-keys: Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones

From: Jarkko Sakkinen
Date: Wed Jul 22 2020 - 22:01:31 EST


On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 09:52:27PM +0200, Alexander A. Klimov wrote:
> Rationale:
> Reduces attack surface on kernel devs opening the links for MITM
> as HTTPS traffic is much harder to manipulate.

A commit message should describe action e.g. "Replace HTTP URL with
HTTPS URL given the security concerns and the slow deprecation of HTTP."

> Deterministic algorithm:
> For each file:
> If not .svg:
> For each line:
> If doesn't contain `\bxmlns\b`:
> For each link, `\bhttp://[^# \t\r\n]*(?:\w|/)`:
> If neither `\bgnu\.org/license`, nor `\bmozilla\.org/MPL\b`:
> If both the HTTP and HTTPS versions
> return 200 OK and serve the same content:
> Replace HTTP with HTTPS.

Please remove this. We don't care about it. Git log should only contain
information either for studying or maintaining the kernel source code.

>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander A. Klimov <grandmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

/Jarkko