trust?

[Werner Koch]

Thomas Roessler <roessler at guug.de> writes:

> Anyway, I'm getting more and more confused about the trust model of
> gpg.  All over the code, I'm finding remarks about the trust into a

Maybe the reason for your confusion are the words:  Originally I
used 
   ownertrust - trust value you assign a key hold howfar you
                trust him to correctly sign other keys.
   trust      - the calculated trust level

Now I'll try to switch to the words used with PGP:

   trust    == ownertrust
   validity == trust

> particular key.  But that's just some kind of "weight" which should
> be used when calculating the more interesting trust information,

Gnupg does this and does this in (I hope so) a very similar way to
PGP.  

> (BTW, I don't see any way to get this information out of gpg, should
> it be present - and it's the trust information I need from within

$ gpg --list-keys --with-colons
pub:q:2048:1:D2262944CE6AC6C1:1997-12-23::216:f:Thomas Roessler 

 2. Field:  A letter describing the calculated trust, see doc/FAQ
            This is a single letter, but be prepared that additional
            information may follow in some future versions.
            (not used for secret keys)
            number to access keys later.
 9. Field:  Ownertrust (primary public keys only)
            This is a single letter, but be prepared that additional
            information may follow in some future versions.


Hope this helps,


  Werner