IDs, signatures and all that stuff

JanuszA.Urbanowicz JanuszA.Urbanowicz
Mon Mar 11 16:24:01 2002


Martin Christensen wrote/napisa=B3[a]/schrieb:
> But then people say that creating new IDs for an old key is better
> than creating an entirely new key, since creating a new key means that
> I have to start collecting signatures all over again. But by doing so,
> will I be that much better helped? Sure, people can see that my
> _other_ IDs have been signed, but that will require more than a quick
> glance, which is more than many people will give to most keys.
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> Am I missing something here?

I believe that you miss teh fact that key trust is calculated on per-key and
not on per-user ID basis.

Alex
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