No warning on 'gpg -a -o somewhere.gpg -s -r someone <file>'

Pascal Scheffers Pascal at Scheffers.Net
Fri Nov 9 08:41:01 CET 2001


On Fri, 2001-11-09 at 08:24, Len Sassaman wrote:
> > > And is there a way for me to add aliases to another persons' keys? I
> >
> > No.
> >
> > I know these problems very well, but IMHO it is matter of the MUA
> > to get this right.
> 
> Interesting idea, though. "local user ids." AFAIK, there's nothing in
> OpenPGP that would prohibit this... though I could see users getting
> upset if other people were able to export these addtional key ids.
Exporting should not really matter, because they would be signed by
something that is not an ultimately trusted key. Add that restriction
and you're fine.

Pascal.





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