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

[Tomas Mraz]

On Wed, 2011-10-12 at 15:22 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote: 
> On Wed, 12 Oct 2011, Tomas Mraz wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2011-10-12 at 14:59 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > OK, but then you should not penalize also the people who keep their SSH
> > private keys only on safe private computers.
> >
> 
> First, asking people to change their key is work, not punishment.
Unnecessary work is kind of punishment.

BTW what prevents the people who do not care about their SSH private key
security to upload their new SSH key to a compromised system immediately
after their generate it again?

-- 
Tomas Mraz
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