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diff --git a/Documentation/process/maintainer-pgp-guide.rst b/Documentation/process/maintainer-pgp-guide.rst index 8f8f1fee92b8..29e7d7b1cd44 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/maintainer-pgp-guide.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/maintainer-pgp-guide.rst @@ -944,12 +944,11 @@ have on your keyring:: uid [ unknown] Linus Torvalds <torvalds@kernel.org> sub rsa2048 2011-09-20 [E] -Next, open the `PGP pathfinder`_. In the "From" field, paste the key -fingerprint of Linus Torvalds from the output above. In the "To" field, -paste the key-id you found via ``gpg --search`` of the unknown key, and -check the results: - -- `Finding paths to Linus`_ +Next, find a trust path from Linus Torvalds to the key-id you found via ``gpg +--search`` of the unknown key. For this, you can use several tools including +https://github.com/mricon/wotmate, +https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/kernel/pgpkeys.git/tree/graphs, and +https://the.earth.li/~noodles/pathfind.html. If you get a few decent trust paths, then it's a pretty good indication that it is a valid key. You can add it to your keyring from the @@ -962,6 +961,3 @@ administrators of the PGP Pathfinder service to not be malicious (in fact, this goes against :ref:`devs_not_infra`). However, if you do not carefully maintain your own web of trust, then it is a marked improvement over blindly trusting keyservers. - -.. _`PGP pathfinder`: https://pgp.cs.uu.nl/ -.. _`Finding paths to Linus`: https://pgp.cs.uu.nl/paths/79BE3E4300411886/to/C94035C21B4F2AEB.html |