Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 14:07:02 +0200 From: Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net> To: Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl> Cc: Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net>, budsz <budsz@kumprang.or.id>, FreeBSD-Security <freebsd-security@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: About *.asc Message-ID: <20030324120702.GC615@straylight.oblivion.bg> In-Reply-To: <20030324110909.GH67203@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> References: <20030321081451.GA13163@kumprang.or.id> <20030321082038.GC54854@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> <200303211429.09017.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> <20030324110909.GH67203@pcwin002.win.tue.nl>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 12:09:09PM +0100, Stijn Hoop wrote: > On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 02:29:08PM +0100, Michael Nottebrock wrote: > > On Friday 21 March 2003 09:20, Stijn Hoop wrote: > > > To tell gpg that you trust that this is the key used by the FreeBSD > > > officer: > > > > > > $ gpg --edit-key security-officer@freebsd.org > > > > > > enter 'trust' and then e.g. '4'. > > > > Not quite. What you've just told gpg there is that you trust the owner of the > > key to have an excellent understanding of key signing, and that his signature > > on a key would be as good as your own. > > OK, I didn't know that (evidently). > > > The basic expression of trust in pgp is signing / locally signing a key. > > So you're saying that I should (at least locally) sign all keys that I > *know* belong to a person? > > In other words, since it's obviously impractical to have everyone sign > the FreeBSD security officer's key, I should locally sign it to signify > *my* trust in the fact that that key really belongs to the officer? > > I'm just trying to make sure I understand here. Thanks for the clarification. Basically, yes, but not *all* keys. The basis of PGP's web of trust is that you sign only a couple of keys that you know belong to people, and then your PGP software recognizes both those keys *and* keys signed by those keys, several levels deep, as deep as you configure it. In fact, you probably need to both sign a key and place your trust on it. G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev roam@ringlet.net roam@sbnd.net roam@FreeBSD.org PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint FDBA FD79 C26F 3C51 C95E DF9E ED18 B68D 1619 4553 I've heard that this sentence is a rumor. [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+fvTm7Ri2jRYZRVMRAh/7AJ9xb/ZoY4DpyzauuEDi5DsG24gzZQCeO2G7 b3K57KsnEGstLinQnRB4rPM= =PR6R -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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