Subject: IMPORTANT: Mandatory password and ssh key change by 2011-11-30

Mike McGrath mmcgrath at redhat.com
Wed Oct 12 19:59:31 UTC 2011


On Wed, 12 Oct 2011, Henrik Nordström wrote:

> ons 2011-10-12 klockan 13:04 -0500 skrev Mike McGrath:
>
> > Lots of people use and share keys across different projects.
>
> There is no security issue in sharing kes across different projects,
> other than that it gives a strong hint that you are the same person in
> both projects, much stronger than name or email.
>

Sorry I didn't explain it very well.

1) People share keys across different projects.
2) We've found PRIVATE keys on our servers
3) We have no reason to believe private keys that can authenticate to
Fedora weren't on some of the compromised systems we've heard so much
about.

You have to remember, lots of our contributors aren't highly technical.
Some don't even know what a private key is.  They just follow the docs on
the website and get access to contribute.  Not everyone is a packager.

	-Mike


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