Weird trust problem

[Zygo Blaxell]

On Mon, 7 Feb 2000 18:20:31 -0500 (EST), H. Wade Minter <minter@lunenburg.org> wrote:
>Using gnupg 1.0.1 on a FreeBSD system.   I've run into a stumper of a
>trust problem, and I was wondering if anyone could shed some light on it.
>
>I'm going to encrypt a message to a guy whose public key I have, and I've
>signed said public key.  But when I go to encrypt the message, I get the
>following warning:
>
>- -------
>Could not find a valid trust path to the key.  Let's see whether we
>can assign some missing owner trust values.
>
>No certificates with undefined trust found.
>
[...]
>
>However, I've personally signed that key, as can be seen below:
>
[...]
>- -----
>
>I'm stumped as to why it's complaining about the validity of the key.  If
>anyone could help out, I'd appreciate it.

I've seen this problem as well, although I don't know a solution for it.
"--always-trust" works around the problem but of course it opens a whole
new can of worms...

	gpg (GnuPG) 1.0.1	[as seen in Debian frozen i386]
	Copyright (C) 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
	This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
	This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
	under certain conditions. See the file COPYING for details.

	Home: ~/.gnupg
	Supported algorithms:
	Cipher: 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, TWOFISH
	Pubkey: RSA, RSA-E, RSA-S, ELG-E, DSA, ELG
	Hash: MD5, SHA1, RIPEMD160


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