key signing

Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder avbidder@fortytwo.ch
Fri Jan 3 12:48:01 2003


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On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 15:18, Tuyen DINH wrote:
> Hello,
>=20
> When you want to sign a key you have just imported, in which cases will
> you choose one the following choices :
> =20
>    (0) I will not answer. (default) ?

My personal feeling is that this is mostly obsolete - all signatures
*should* fit into the 1-3 schema. But then, there may be special
applications where these do not fit and perhaps a 0 with a policy URL
(or notation) explaining the special circumstances makes more sense

>    (1) I have not checked at all.   ?

 - as David said: when you don't care who is behind this key, but you
want to make a statement about 'the person behind that key (whoever this
is)'
 - (can be seen as application of the above): recently, a robotCA was
created: it signs keys and verifies email addresses only (of course,
being fully automatic, it can't do more).

cheers
-- vbi

--=20
get my gpg key here: http://fortytwo.ch/gpg/92082481

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iHMEABECADMFAj4VeLcsGmh0dHA6Ly9mb3J0eXR3by5jaC9sZWdhbC9ncGcvZW1h
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Signature policy: http://fortytwo.ch/legal/gpg/email.20020822

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