Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] .travis.yml: Disable IRC build status updates from forks

[Alex Bennée]

Pranith Kumar <address@hidden> writes:

> On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 7:58 AM, Alex Bennée <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>
>>> +# The channel name "irc.oftc.net#qemu" is encrypted against qemu/qemu
>>> +# to prevent IRC notifications from forks. This was created using:
>>> +# $ travis encrypt -r "qemu/qemu" "irc.oftc.net#qemu"
>>
>> Interesting. I didn't realise anyone outside the repository can still
>> create encrypted strings. I guess there is a repository secret that we
>> never see.
>
> Yes, there is a per-repo private key which is not disclosed to anyone
> and is used to decrypt this string. You can only have access to the
> public key of the repo to create the encrypted string as above.

Cool. Applied to travis/next.

Thanks.

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Alex Bennée