From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753850Ab1JTVYb (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Oct 2011 17:24:31 -0400 Received: from anchor-post-3.mail.demon.net ([195.173.77.134]:65234 "EHLO anchor-post-3.mail.demon.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752607Ab1JTVYa (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Oct 2011 17:24:30 -0400 Message-ID: <4EA0918B.9030608@lougher.demon.co.uk> Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 22:24:27 +0100 From: Phillip Lougher User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090817) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Ted Ts'o" , Phillip Lougher , "H. Peter Anvin" , greg@kroah.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, phillip@lougher.demon.co.uk Subject: Re: Procedural requirements for restoring kernel.org accounts References: <20111014152100.GA11717@kroah.com> <4E988564.40905@zytor.com> <20111020204759.GB16820@thunk.org> In-Reply-To: <20111020204759.GB16820@thunk.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Ted Ts'o wrote: > > If you're not going to be able to make the key signing on Tuesday, > please don't bother to send your key to > prague-key-submission@googlegroups.com, since that won't do much good. > There's only one flight per day from Bristol to Prague and that gets in too late sorry. There would be no issue with Tuesday evening. I could re-book for Monday and pay an extra night in the hotel, but I'd rather not do that unless absolutely necessary. > > This will print out your keys multiple times on a piece of paper, so > you can cut them into paper strips. There will be many kernel > developers staying the whole week. You can ask them to sign your key, > and then hand them one of the strips of paper. You will need to > convince them of your identity; this can be done with government > issued ID, although some kernel developers may not be comfortable > doing this since they might not know what a Welsh identity card or UK > passport might look like. Point taken, though UK like all other European Union passports are standardized and look the same across the EU. > So some kernel developers may only sign a > key if they know you personally. Wouldn't I still have this problem if I turned up to the KS key signing session? Regards Phillip