Lukas Wunner <lukas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Herbert asks for long-term maintenance of everything under > crypto/asymmetric_keys/ and associated algorithms (ECDSA, GOST, RSA) [1]. > > Ignat has kindly agreed to co-maintain this with me going forward. > > Stefan has agreed to be added as reviewer for ECDSA. He introduced it > in 2021 and has been meticulously providing reviews for 3rd party > patches anyway. > > Retain David Howells' maintainer entry until he explicitly requests to > be removed. He originally introduced asymmetric keys in 2012. > > RSA was introduced by Tadeusz Struk as an employee of Intel in 2015, > but he's changed jobs and last contributed to the implementation in 2016. > > GOST was introduced by Vitaly Chikunov as an employee of Basealt LLC [2] > (Базальт СПО [3]) in 2019. This company is an OFAC sanctioned entity > [4][5], which makes employees ineligible as maintainer [6]. It's not > clear if Vitaly is still working for Basealt, he did not immediately > respond to my e-mail. Since knowledge and use of GOST algorithms is > relatively limited outside the Russian Federation, assign "Odd fixes" > status for now. > > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/Z8QNJqQKhyyft_gz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ > [2] https://prohoster.info/ru/blog/novosti-interneta/reliz-yadra-linux-5-2 > [3] https://www.basealt.ru/ > [4] https://ofac.treasury.gov/recent-actions/20240823 > [5] https://sanctionssearch.ofac.treas.gov/Details.aspx?id=50178 > [6] https://lore.kernel.org/r/7ee74c1b5b589619a13c6318c9fbd0d6ac7c334a.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ > > Signed-off-by: Lukas Wunner <lukas@xxxxxxxxx> Seems reasonable. Unfortunately, I find myself a bit strapped for time. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
