From 9c03bc90c0651647a6f17d532533fad9ac1d5d9e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Conor Dooley Date: Thu, 16 May 2024 16:35:23 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Reviewed-by: Kanak Shilledar Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240516-groin-slingshot-c3c3734d2f10@spud --- Documentation/process/email-clients.rst | 20 -------------------- 1 file changed, 20 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/process/email-clients.rst b/Documentation/process/email-clients.rst index 471e1f93fa09c..fc2c46f3f82dd 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. -- 2.49.0