Re-signing keys with higher owner trust

Doug Barton dougb at dougbarton.us
Mon Mar 4 07:37:33 CET 2013


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On 03/03/2013 03:05 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
|> If the old signature was ever sent to a key server, it will
|> remain there, but the new one with the higher cert level will be
|> preferred.

| While this is true, it's worth noting that the second certiifcation
| will be preferred because it is more recent than the first, not
| because of the higher chosen cert-level.

Right, I was trying to keep it simple for the new user. :)
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