1.4.3 // proper syntax for --edit-key cross-certify ?

[John W. Moore III]

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Charly Avital wrote:

> But when I Quit, I am prompted to save changes:
> --------------
> Command> quit
> Save changes? (y/N) n
> Quit without saving? (y/N) y
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> 
> I have chosen to quit without saving any changes, because the truth is I
> do not fully understand what the change is, and what it would do to my
> key and/or to my signing subkey.

Knee-jerk response is to say "It does Nothing to you Key/sub-Key" but
that is not /exactly/ true.  What occurs is that your Key & sub-Key are
inextricably linked.  This is prevent a very remote & arcane possibility
of your signing sub_key being hijacked.

Real World effect.....with 'require-cross-certification' active in my
gpg.conf File your message Opened with a yellow stripe across the top of
my Enigmail Screen and a 'Red' Pen in the lower right corner.  Clicking
on the pen gives me a verbose text indicating that you have *not* back
signed the sub-Key.  When I comment out the gpg.conf entry I Open the
message to the familiar Green Line indicating 'Good Signature from
Trusted Key'.

Had you chosen to 'save' the changes it would have appeared Green when I
first Opened this Post.  My suggestion would be to go ahead and 'save'
the changes and rest comfortably that it will have no negative effect
whatsoever.

Others will surely disagree with me and should appear here shortly.

JOHN ;)
Timestamp: Wednesday 05 Apr 2006, 19:11  --400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
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