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Documentation/process/maintainer-pgp-guide: Replace broken link to PGP path finder

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PGP pathfinder[1], which is suggested for finding a trust path to
unknown PGP keys by 'maintainer-pgp-guide.rst', is not working now.
This commit replaces it with other available tools.

[1] https://pgp.cs.uu.nl/

Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sjpark@amazon.de>
Reviewed-by: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210812095030.4704-2-sj38.park@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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SeongJae Park 2021-08-12 09:50:30 +00:00 committed by Jonathan Corbet
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@ -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