trusting an imported key which is the only key in a ring?

[Werner Koch]

On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Robert Forsman wrote:

>   I have a DSA key (beaver-alpha) I generated on one machine.  I have
> exported the public key and copied it to another machine and imported it as
> the ONLY key in that user's keyring.  I want to trust that key for --verify
> operations.  What gpg command do I use to mark that key as fully trusted?

There used to be an option --trusted-key which was used to specify
keys that should be considered as ultimately trusted without having
this secret key.  I removed this option on 1999-03-11 at the same time
the lsign command was implemented. 

I can't remember the actual reason for removing this options but IIRC
some folks complained about a possible security problem.  I would have
to browse the archives for this (Yes,yes we should have htdig on
lists.gnupg.org - I know).

Hmmm...


  Werner