Encryption Issue

[Anthony E. Greene]

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On 27-Sep-2002/12:45 -0400, Francis Litterio <franl@world.std.com> wrote:
>Anthony E. Greene writes:
>
>> "Mehta, Swapnil" wrote:
>>>	When I try encrypting my file I get a message 
>>>
>>>		'Could not find a valid trust path to the key.....
>>>		Use this key anyway?'
>>>
>>>	If i say 'yes' the encryption completes successfully. Is there any
>>>way i can avoid this message
>
>> Sign the key:
>>
>>   gpg --lsign 0xKeyID
>
>That's fine if it's _his_ key.  He never said if he was encrypting to
>his own public key or not.

It does not matter who the key belongs to. If it's signed, gpg should not
ask if it should "use this key anyway".

Another message in this thread
noted that gpg 1.0.7 does not automatically grant trust to the owner's
key. So if I sign a key, gpg 1.0.7 will not automatically assume that my
signature constitutes full trust all by itself. Either there have to be
sufficient signatures on the key to use a Web of Trust, or I have to tell
gpg 1.0.7 that my own key should be explicity trusted.


Tony
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