From 59037965717867f44357eddde3fe5bdc030bc2b6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hidde Beydals Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2023 00:35:58 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] docs: add note to motivation section Signed-off-by: Hidde Beydals --- README.rst | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst index fc4ceed38..ce4f45885 100644 --- a/README.rst +++ b/README.rst @@ -1522,6 +1522,14 @@ the data key under tree->`sops`->`mac`. Motivation ---------- + 📝 **A note from the maintainers** + + This section was written by the original authors of SOPS while they were + working at Mozilla. It is kept here for historical reasons and to provide + technical background on the project. It is not necessarily representative + of the views of the current maintainers, nor are they currently affiliated + with Mozilla. + Automating the distribution of secrets and credentials to components of an infrastructure is a hard problem. We know how to encrypt secrets and share them between humans, but extending that trust to systems is difficult. Particularly