trust paths

Hauke Laging mailinglisten at hauke-laging.de
Fri Feb 27 22:45:36 CET 2015


Am Fr 27.02.2015, 22:30:41 schrieb Christoph Anton Mitterer:

> Obviously I'll need any intermediate keys (and enough of them that I
> personally decide it's trustworthy).

Once more we see the term that confuses nearly everyone:

You personally decide to trust a key – for it's certifications. That is 
not in any way related to the intermediate certifications for this key.

The WoT makes a key *valid*. What is needed for that is your personal 
decision, too, but on another level: That is configured in GnuPG (with 
--completes-needed and --marginals-needed). Unless you decide not to use 
the WoT and make your own signature based on the ones you see.


Hauke
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