trust

[Caskey L. Dickson]

On Tue, 21 Jul 1998, Raj Laud wrote:

> Due to the (understandable) lack of documentation for GPG right now, I'm not
> sure how trust is handled for keys. Could someone please explain to me how
> this works and how to edit or even view the trust values for certain keys?
> Sorry about my ignorance but I'm new to gpg.

Raj,

While I don't know how the trust model works, I have managed to get a pair
of gpg keys working that can communicate with each other.  It took some
doing the first time so I decided to write the steps out.  Of special
interest was that the first time it didn't work right, but I experimented
and deleted the trust database and that made things work.

I'm part way through a short document that I created to help organize my
thoughts as I worked with gpg.  Basically, I'm using qmail aliases to
forward messages between two machines while passing them through gpg to
encrypt/decrypt them before and after.  Basically a safer solution than
raw email forwarding if you have two trusted networks that you want email
forwarded between.

The short document currently contains the blow-by-blow process I went
through creating two key rings, and giving one to the other so that it
could automatically encrypt messages to it.  If anyone is interested it is
at http://www.technocage.com/~caskey/gpg.html The page mentions the
package I'm working on but doesn't contain any of the details about it so
ignore those parts.

Hope this helps some,

C=)

P.S.  The document isn't done being formatted and I was experimenting with
color to make it easier to locate the parts I typed in so try not to
notice the look.

P.P.S.  I just copied the document over from our intranet and I don't have
a regular public home page so you won't see any pointers there, you have
to go directly to gpg.html.

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