Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 12:09:09 +0100 From: Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl> To: Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> Cc: budsz <budsz@kumprang.or.id>, FreeBSD-Security <freebsd-security@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: About *.asc Message-ID: <20030324110909.GH67203@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> In-Reply-To: <200303211429.09017.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> References: <20030321081451.GA13163@kumprang.or.id> <20030321082038.GC54854@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> <200303211429.09017.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net>
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--LTeJQqWS0MN7I/qa Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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'. >=20 > Not quite. What you've just told gpg there is that you trust the owner of= the=20 > key to have an excellent understanding of key signing, and that his signa= ture=20 > 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 clarificatio= n. --Stijn --=20 In the force if Yoda's so strong, construct a sentence with words in the proper order then why can't he? --LTeJQqWS0MN7I/qa Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+fudVY3r/tLQmfWcRArSrAKCueCvINKDu3DEQUZIromh8cVGN1gCffwK5 n1jDi26WSV0mNQMG7WdDYOU= =ck/d -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --LTeJQqWS0MN7I/qa-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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