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The linux kernel requires that code contributors be registered. I<br>
think that contibutions must be cryptographically signed, but I'm not<br>
sure. This helps but isn't air-tight.<br>
</blockquote><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">This is news to me. No, there is no registration to work on the kernel. There us no single authority who you could register with. I believe i know what your misunderstanding is. after the 2012 breach, Linus prefers your tags be signed (i recall there are still a few straggler maintainers out there). This doesn’t affect the average contributor because they don’t send pull requests to Linus. Now because we wanted signed tags and key distribution is a fun problem, one needed to get their keys signed. The protocol was - I know this person and have verified their identity, so i will sign their key. One of the things we did was check each others government issued ids. Of course we are no experts in spotting fake ids so that is a risk factor considered. But for most part we signed each others keys and “verified” their identity and I think you misremembered it as registering.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Dhaval </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)" dir="auto"><br>
I don't see that static linking would help with this problem.<br>
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