Re: PGP pathfinder service is no longer maintained

From: Jonathan McDowell
Date: Thu Dec 17 2020 - 14:26:44 EST



In article <20201216224344.h3r7wbo7fgatupm5@chatter.i7.local> (earth.lists.linux-kernel) you wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 10:20:18PM +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > > Unfortunately the site https://pgp.cs.uu.nl/ is not maintained
> > > anymore
> > > and the "Finding paths to Linus" link in the Kernel Maintainer PGP guide
> > > is dead. Is there any alternative sites to find a way through the web of
> > > trust?
> >
> > Several. Konstantin has a local one: https://github.com/mricon/wotmate

> This is how we generate these:
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/kernel/pgpkeys.git/tree/graphs

> > and if you want a web service, I like this one:
> > https://the.earth.li/~noodles/pathfind.html

> FYI, it says "The pathfinder is currently out of action due to queries
> taking far too long to respond. It may return in the future when I find
> enough time to optimize it." :)

I've re-enabled it for the moment; the keyserver now only holds keys it
has paths to so hopefully it'll be a bit better behaved now.

J.

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