Announcing: NixOS Security Team, and Request for Comments

[Graham Christensen]

(cross-posted to nix-dev for discussion.)

Hello Nixians,

This morning the NixOS Security Team was formalized in a PR to the
homepage: https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-homepage/pull/123.

This is now public at https://nixos.org/nixos/security.html.

This information is currently listed as follows:


Graham Christensen gra...@grahamc.com
GPG Key: 0xFE918C3A98C1030F
GPG Fingerprint: BA94 FDF1 1DA4 0521 2864 C121 FE91 8C3A 98C1 030F

Franz Pletz fpl...@fnordicwalking.de
GPG Key: 0x846FDED7792617B4
GPG Fingerprint: 8A39 615D CE78 AF08 2E23 F303 846F DED7 7926 17B4

Domen Kožar do...@dev.si
GPG Key: 0xC2FFBCAFD2C24246
GPG Fingerprint: E96C 15A0 8D17 CE3B 17B0 C7AB C2FF BCAF D2C2 4246

Rob Vermaas rob.v...@gmail.com
GPG Key: 0xE114A5F264A8AE8E
GPG Fingerprint: 96BF 75A5 3DEE 1F21 5F0C 979C E114 A5F2 64A8 AE8E


At this time, none of us have signed each other's keys. There is some
discussion about this in the pull request (linked above) but basically
it boils down to this:

We do each trust the work and intentions of each other, but this
doesn't necessarily translate in to confirmed identity.

Signing keys has a lot of meaning around verifying identity. Until
each of us are able to be in the same room and check identification, we
can't very well assert each other's identities.

This is an effort to preserve the intentions of the web of trust... and
this is where we get to the "request for comments" on how the Nix
community would like for us to proceed on this front.

If you have any opinions or feedback, please feel free to reply to the
nix-dev email list, and _not_ the GitHub issue so as to keep further
conversation on this list.


Thank you,
Graham Christensen