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| author | Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com> | 2022-12-31 15:23:21 +0000 |
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| committer | Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2023-01-13 09:26:19 -0700 |
| commit | 1d2ed9234c85ab4c0f4429134592957abf18c5b5 (patch) | |
| tree | 2d0c89bea469c6b9bf4d5c38230a09b62cb1082d | |
| parent | 3760fe201c18945c1692d200b94658092a991bac (diff) | |
Documentation: process: Document suitability of Proton Mail for kernel development
Proton Mail automatically picks up PGP keys for those with kernel.org
accounts (and other domains!) which provide WKD for their users & uses
them to encrypt emails, including patches.
Document the behaviour & Proton Mail's unsuitability for kernel
development.
Reviewed-by: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221231152320.1340874-1-conor@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/process/email-clients.rst | 20 |
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/process/email-clients.rst b/Documentation/process/email-clients.rst index fc2c46f3f82d..471e1f93fa09 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/email-clients.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/email-clients.rst @@ -350,3 +350,23 @@ although tab2space problem can be solved with external editor. Another problem is that Gmail will base64-encode any message that has a non-ASCII character. That includes things like European names. + +Proton Mail +*********** + +Proton Mail has a "feature" where it looks up keys using Web Key Directory +(WKD) and encrypts mail to any recipients for which it finds a key. +Kernel.org publishes the WKD for all developers who have kernel.org accounts. +As a result, emails sent using Proton Mail to kernel.org addresses will be +encrypted. +Unfortunately, Proton Mail does not provide a mechanism to disable the +automatic encryption, viewing it as a privacy feature. +The automatic encryption feature is also enabled for mail sent via the Proton +Mail Bridge, so this affects all outgoing messages, including patches sent with +``git send-email``. +Encrypted mail adds unnecessary friction, as other developers may not have mail +clients, or tooling, configured for use with encrypted mail and some mail +clients may encrypt responses to encrypted mail for all recipients, including +the mailing lists. +Unless a way to disable this "feature" is introduced, Proton Mail is unsuited +to kernel development. |