On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 09:54:01PM +0100, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > David Shaw wrote: > > >>It's a countermeasure against an attack against signing subkeys. > >>Basically, the primary key signs all subkeys. With backsigs, the > >>signing subkey also signs the primary key. > >> > >>Without this, an attacker can "steal" a signing subkey from someone > >>else and try and pretend that a signature came from his own key. It's > >>not a particularly good attack: the attacker can't issue signatures to > >>prove his ownership. > >> > >> > >I should add that this is a new feature for 1.4.3.
> Can keys created before 1.4.3 be updated with that stuff? Yes. David _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
