Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 4:21 PM, Stefan Beller <sbeller@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > +Do not PGP sign your patch. Most likely, your maintainer or other > > +people on the list would not have your PGP key and would not bother > > +obtaining it anyway. > > I think even that could be further simplified - by just removing all > comments about pgp email > > Because it's not that the PGP keys would be hard to get, it's that > PGP-signed email is an abject failure, and nobody sane does it. > > Google for "phil zimmerman doesn't use pgp email". > > It's dead. So I'm not sure it's worth mentioning at all. I disagree, we still see it, and Debian still advocates it. In fact, we may also want to mention S/MIME in the same breath: https://public-inbox.org/git/20170110004031.57985-2-hansenr@xxxxxxxxxx/ Richard's more recent mails seem to indicate he's reformed :)