web of trust vs subkeys use cases

Tiago Antao tiago@ripe.net
Tue Sep 24 14:40:02 2002


Hi!


What would be the best way to deal with this scenario:
We have a department of people that has to sign messages, each person=20
should have a different key, but the key should not be accepted after=20
the person goes away. For that we need to know if a key is trusted or=20
not. Is it better subkeys (its a small group so it can be manually=20
maintained) or using the mechanisms for a "web of trust"? If we used=20
subkeys, each person would have a subkey of a master key, and somebody=20
would maintain the master.

Thanks for any suggestions

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Tiago Ant=E3o - RIPE NCC