1.3.6 cert signatures

[Atom 'Smasher']

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On Tue, 3 Aug 2004, David Shaw wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 05:30:01PM -0400, Atom 'Smasher' wrote:
>
>>>> 2) according to the 1.3.6 man page, "--ask-cert-level" should be on by
>>>> default. that seems to be incorrect.
>>>
>>> Yes.  That's a documentation error.  --ask-cert-level is off by
>>> default.
>> ===================
>>
>> i would think the default should be to ask... new users won't know to set
>> an option, and experienced users can turn it off if they want.
>
> The reasoning behind this is that new users seem to be confused by it.
> They mistake it for something to do with the web of trust and don't
> really know what to set it to.  There were also users who took it a
> little too literally and started signing every key they saw with level
> 1 signatures.  It's really an experienced user thing, so we changed it
> for 1.3.x to be off by default.
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that logic makes sense... i guess after 1.4 is released we'll just start 
seeing a lot more 0x10 signatures....


         ...atom

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