> On June 22, 2013 at 4:52 AM Michael Tokarev <m...@tls.msk.ru> > wrote: > > > 22.06.2013 11:56, Peter Lebbing wrote: > > On 21/06/13 12:34, Michael Tokarev wrote: > >> It says "validity: unknown" > > > > I just thought of something. If for some reason your /own/ > > key is no longer > > trusted, you can make signatures all day but it won't > > increase validity. > > > > If you do --edit-key A8983CE7, what does its trust say? > > That was it. > > $ gpg ... --edit-key A8983CE7 > Secret key is available. > > pub 1024R/A8983CE7 created: 2005-01-27 expires: never usage: > SC > trust: unknown validity: unknown > sub 1024R/8BB2CB48 created: 2005-01-27 expires: never usage: E > [ unknown] (1). f0501... > > > After setting trust to it: > > pub 1024R/A8983CE7 created: 2005-01-27 expires: never usage: > SC > trust: ultimate validity: ultimate > sub 1024R/8BB2CB48 created: 2005-01-27 expires: never usage: E > [ultimate] (1). f0501... > > and it now does not complain anymore when encrypting data to > other > keys, without re-signing anything. > > Wow. > > WOW! > > Thank you very much for this, awesome guess. > > I think in quite some other cases when users had to trust > _other_ > keys to be able to encrypt data to them the actual problem was > the > same as in my case. > > And it's interesting that this prob only manifested itself now > after > upgrade from 1.4.10 to 1.4.12. > > I think I've seen similar issue myself before in other > situation, it > was very much like that, so I too had to indicate ultimate > trust for > other keys like that. But it was several years ago. > > Thanks you guys!
Well, it was Peter's thinking that saved you. Great job! I will file that tidbit of information away because I have some similar upgrades in the future and want my keys to last 8 more years or until there is a paradigm shift that makes the present keys obsolete, which ever comes first. Kudos!
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