On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 08:30:26AM +0200, Bo Berglund wrote: > We are new to GPG and we have used gpg4win 1.0.5 to install the > programs on Windows XP Pro PC:s. Some years ago we used PGP 7, but now > it turns out that we cannot get it to work on our XP-Pro PC:s so we > are trying GPG instead. > > But we are facing a problem when we keys and export our public keys. > When we import the resulting ASC file from others into WinPT by > drag-drop it looks like it succeeds, but when the key has reached the > window we see that the validity and trust columns show up as None! > > What can we do to change this? Our own keys are Ultimate both in trust > and validity, yet the public keys seem to lose this, why? > In one case I have validity=Full but trust=None and I don't know why > this happened.... > > Can someone please explain what we are doing wrong here? > Is there another step after generating a key pair or after exporting > the public key to make it valid and trusted? > Or is this done by the other side (the one importing the public key)?
If I read you correctly you are exporting Keys from PGP7 for use with GnuPG. Since you have used PGP before I assume that you are familiar with the "web-of-trust". The owner trust on a key is not exported when you export the key, thus you have to assign it yourself and unless you have signed a key yourself no key will be truted unless you asign some owner trust to the keys in the path to the key you want to use. I hope this makes sence, //Samuel _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
