Suspect Signatures

David Newman dfn at MIT.EDU
Wed Sep 24 00:08:14 CEST 2008


> On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 02:42:19PM -0400, David Newman wrote:
> > Is there a that I can mark the signature as suspect,
>
> Alas, no.
[snip]
> That said, this is really an aesthetic problem, and not a trust
> problem.  The web of trust ultimately takes care of bad signatures as
> those people who issue them will eventually get marked as
> untrustworthy.

Is that because there is not a 2-way trust relationship going on?
I guess I don't understand how the WoT will be able to figure out
that he is untrustworthy if there is no way to mark a signature
as untrustworthy.  It seems there should be a way to sign signatures
as good or bad.

-Dave




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