influence of signature type on trustdb

[David Shaw]

On Feb 7, 2013, at 5:12 AM, Niels Laukens <niels at dest-unreach.be> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to figure out what the influence is of the different
> signature types (0x10-0x13). As far as I can tell, they only _indicate_
> the signers trust in his own sig, but isn't used in any way by GPG. Is
> this correct?

Basically correct.  All of the signature types are equal except for the influence of --min-cert-level.  By default, that's set to 2, so the 0x11 "persona" signature is ignored when building the trustdb.  A signature whose very definition indicates that the person didn't check before making it, is probably one you want to skip :)

David