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From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
To: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: workflows@vger.kernel.org, meta@public-inbox.org
Subject: Re: workflow problems and possible public-inbox solutions
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2019 00:29:28 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191019002928.GB20824@dcvr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191018190305.GF25456@chatter.i7.local>

Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 03:25:16AM +0000, Eric Wong wrote:
> > 1. vger deliverability problems to major mail providers
> > 
> > (NNTP|public-inbox) => POP3 bridge, since all major providers
> > support importing mail from POP3.
> > 
> > https://public-inbox.org/meta/20160411034104.GA7817@dcvr.yhbt.net/
> > 
> > Locally-run NNTP -> mail fetchers can also work, but requires
> > more effort to setup.
> 
> There is also this:
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dborkman/l2md.git/
> 
> With a bit more tweaking (see TODO), it can be made into a very nice generic
> interface tool -- in fact, I hope to use it at some point for feeding
> patches into patchwork instead of piping directly from postfix.

Looks like that still needs local storage?  I'm planning a tool
which would work remotely while allowing local caching/memoization.

> > 2. attestation of messages
> > 
> > Self-publishing "Sent Mail" folders via NNTP or git,
> > (similar to Certificate Transparency):
> > https://lore.kernel.org/workflows/20191010192852.wl622ijvyy6i6tiu@chatter.i7.local/
> > 
> > This would provide redundancy, too; and it's probably more
> > usable and learnable than GPG :P
> 
> Well, it still uses GPG, but it hides away the horrible parts. The easiest
> way to accomplish auto-signing is to create a dedicated ECC subkey and store
> it (and just it) in a dedicated dir used by the self-publishing tool.

Self-hosting an .onion would get rid of the need for GPG.
That should be doable on most home Internet connections, but
requires constant uptime...  But more self-hosting and not
having to pay registrars is good :>

HTTPS still relies on trust authorities, and it's "good enough"
for a lot of people so probably OK... *shrug*

> > 4. secret exchanges for embargoed issues
> > 
> > No idea, really; not my department :P
> > 
> > It would be good if all messages in the exchange can be
> > published and mirrored once the embargo is lifted, though.
> 
> There is ongoing separate effort to address this, using remail:
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/remail.git/
> 
> I haven't started implementing it yet, but my hope is to provide builtin
> archives that can be released once the embargo is lifted.

Cool :>

      reply	other threads:[~2019-10-19  0:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-18  3:25 workflow problems and possible public-inbox solutions Eric Wong
2019-10-18 19:01 ` Eric Wong
2019-10-18 19:03 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2019-10-19  0:29   ` Eric Wong [this message]

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