Question About --list-sigs

[Ingo Klöcker]

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On Thursday 26 September 2002 00:08, jason.s.cecil.1 wrote:
> Anyone know what the value that starts the line for each signature of
> the public keys represents?
>
> Ex:
>
> pub  1024D/165767** 2002-09-25 A** (use pgp) <****@purdue.edu>
> sig 3       165767** 2002-09-25   A** (use pgp) <****@purdue.edu>
> sig 3       6543E1** 2002-09-25   Jason Scott Cecil (Akuma)
> <akuma@purdue.edu>
> sub  1024g/EC1E50** 2002-09-25 [expires: 2003-01-23]
> sig         165767** 2002-09-25   A** (use pgp) <****@purdue.edu>
>
> Someone said the 3 in "sig 3" represented the trust level?  however i
> changed the trust level on a few and got the same output.  thanks so
> much, can't find descrip. of this output anywhere.  please reply to
> akuma@purdue.edu as i'm not on this list.

When you sign a key with GnuPG >= 1.0.7 you are asked:
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How carefully have you verified the key you are about to sign actually 
belongs
to the person named above?  If you don't know what to answer, enter "0".

   (0) I will not answer. (default)
   (1) I have not checked at all.
   (2) I have done casual checking.
   (3) I have done very careful checking.
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The number behind "sig " corresponds to these numbers, e. g. "sig 3" 
means that the signer _claims_ to have done very careful checking 
before he signed the key.

Regards,
Ingo

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