How trust works in gpg...

Christoph Anton Mitterer christoph.anton.mitterer at physik.uni-muenchen.de
Tue Apr 15 21:27:26 CEST 2008


On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 13:45 -0400, David Shaw wrote:
> If someone wants to sign your key, you then end up with:
> 
>   KEY + UID + SELFSIG + SIG
> 
Nicely illustrated,.. but let me please add (I know of course that _you_
know this) that the SIG is made only over the KEY+UID data,... thus the
keyholder can happily change his SELFSIG whenever he wants without
loosing the SIG's.

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