Which keyring for Public Keys ?

Anthony E. Greene agreene@pobox.com
Wed Mar 20 21:59:02 2002


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On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, David Livingstone wrote:
>In various documents I have come across the 2 following
>conflictingstatements :
[snip]

The private keyring only stores private keys. The public keyring stores all 
public keys no matter who owns them.

Applications that treat the owner's public key differently simply have to 
look at both keyrings to find matching (complementary) keys.


Tony
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