Exporting & Importing Public Keys

[Kevin Turner]

On Tue, Jun 29, 1999 at 05:07:24PM +0200, Petr Danecek wrote:
[...]
> and set
>       trust: full
[...]
>
> Could not find a valid trust path to the key.  Let's see whether we
> can assign some missing owner trust values.
[...]
> It is NOT certain that the key belongs to its owner.
[...]

This is the second time people have gotten stuck on this in the past few
days.  Perhaps the warning message about a vaild trust path should
remind the user that the trust path is built on key /signatures/?  

I admit that this one caught me when I first started using gnupg as
well, even after being moderately well-read in the pgp trust mechanism.
I was used to having two trust parameters -- "do you trust this key
belongs to the name on it?" and "do you trust this key to sign others?"
When I started using gpg's 'edit-key' interface, I was confused as to
why there was only a single "trust" option, and further confused when
setting this "trust" option did not result in the key being trusted.

Bring on the verbosity,
 - Kevin

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