locally signed keys are not necessarily fully trusted any more

Ingo Buescher usenet-2004 at webmounty.de
Fri Dec 17 16:02:19 CET 2004


Hi,
after I switched from gnupg-1.2.6 to gnupg-1.4.0 I noticed a peculiar
problem concerning the validity of some of the keys in my keyring -
although I signed all of them locally some are not regarded "fully"
trusted any more.

gallatin at nathan:~/.gnupg $ gpg --list-sig netfilter
pub   1024D/CA9A8D5B 2001-09-15 [expires: 2006-09-14]
uid       [ unknown] Netfilter Core Team <coreteam at netfilter.org>
sig 3        CA9A8D5B 2001-09-15 never       Netfilter Core Team
<coreteam at netfilter.org>
sig          470DB964 2001-12-18 never       [User ID not found]
sig 1 L      DF00C939 2004-06-08 2006-09-14  Ingo Buescher
<gallatin at gmx.net>
sig          7135E366 2003-12-21 never       [User ID not found]
sub   1024g/85DD6C1A 2001-09-15 [expires: 2006-09-14]
sig          CA9A8D5B 2001-09-15 never       Netfilter Core Team
<coreteam at netfilter.org>

other keys I signed locally are just fine and no - those are not 
signed by a trusted third party either.
I can repair the problem if I remove my local signature from those keys 
and use "lsign" again. Am I making a stupid mistake here?

IB
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