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| author | Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com> | 2024-05-16 16:35:23 +0100 |
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| committer | Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2024-05-30 13:37:22 -0600 |
| commit | 9c03bc90c0651647a6f17d532533fad9ac1d5d9e (patch) | |
| tree | c140845a58a52dd0103192c1d0285ade021c39c9 /Documentation | |
| parent | 23a0bc28515934ed081169257f5b76167f07df4a (diff) | |
Documentation: process: Revert "Document suitability of Proton Mail for kernel development"
Revert commit 1d2ed9234c85 ("Documentation: process: Document
suitability of Proton Mail for kernel development") as Proton disabled
WKD for kernel.org addresses as a result of some interaction with
Konstantin on social.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>
Reviewed-by: Kanak Shilledar <kanakshilledar111@protonmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240516-groin-slingshot-c3c3734d2f10@spud
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/process/email-clients.rst | 20 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 20 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/process/email-clients.rst b/Documentation/process/email-clients.rst index 471e1f93fa09..fc2c46f3f82d 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/email-clients.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/email-clients.rst @@ -350,23 +350,3 @@ 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. |