cross-certification

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Wed Sep 13 18:21:43 CEST 2006


On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 17:20, David Shaw said:

> I think this is not a good idea - at least, not yet.  At the moment,
> there are very few keys that have cross certification, and GPG is the
> only program that generates keys with it.  If
> --require-cross-certification is set by default, it will pretty much
> break signing subkeys for most people.

My reasonsing is that people who are going to use gpg2 need to be a
bit adventurous anyway and thus they should be able do create the
backsigs.

Lets see how this works out.  It will be easy to change it back for
the 2.0 release.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner





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