View Issue Details
| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0000497 | Rocky-Linux-9 | General | public | 2022-10-08 13:35 | 2022-10-08 15:42 |
| Reporter | T X | Assigned To | Louis Abel | ||
| Priority | normal | Severity | minor | Reproducibility | have not tried |
| Status | closed | Resolution | won't fix | ||
| Summary | 0000497: Please sign Rocky 9 key with Rocky 8 key | ||||
| Description | Well the advantage of GPG is to move trust away from PKI which has been compromised in the past. Though new, I've had the Rocky 8 key for months longer than the Rocky 9 key. But technically I cannot verify, without resetting the trust back to PKI, that the Rocky 9 key is legit. I do think it is correct to have a new key for each release, but I think each new key should be cross-signed with the old key. $ gpg --fingerprint --list-sigs pub rsa4096 2021-02-14 [SCE] 7051 C470 A929 F454 CEBE 37B7 15AF 5DAC 6D74 5A60 uid [ unknown] Release Engineering <infrastructure@rockylinux.org> sig 3 15AF5DAC6D745A60 2021-02-14 Release Engineering <infrastructure@rockylinux.org> pub rsa4096 2022-05-09 [SC] 21CB 256A E16F C54C 6E65 2949 702D 426D 350D 275D uid [ unknown] Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation - Release key 2022 <releng@rockylinux.org> sig 3 702D426D350D275D 2022-05-09 Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation - Release key 2022 <releng@rockylinux.org> ^ No cross-signatures, only self-signed Please guys, it seems like the big companies we're all at the mercy of, gave your organisation specifically a load of money to build Rocky. | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
|
Hello. Thank you for the report. Unfortunately we do not fully understand the nature of this bug report. Like in a previous bug report that we closed, we noted that the build systems are different and thus our key management components are also different. The legacy system has the 8 key, the new system has the 9 key, and the way they operate are radically different from one another. Cross signing was not part of the design; initial designs were for signing RPM packages, and that's it. I do not believe our upstreams CentOS, Red Hat, nor Fedora do any sort of cross certification of their keys between major versions, and unfortunately, we do not see the benefit of this. I would encourage joining one of our discussion mediums such as our forums (forums.rockylinux.org) or mattermost and starting a conversation if you'd like to engage with us and the community about your ideas/thoughts. |
|
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-10-08 13:35 | T X | New Issue | |
| 2022-10-08 15:42 | Louis Abel | Assigned To | => Louis Abel |
| 2022-10-08 15:42 | Louis Abel | Status | new => closed |
| 2022-10-08 15:42 | Louis Abel | Resolution | open => won't fix |
| 2022-10-08 15:42 | Louis Abel | Note Added: 0000695 |