On 2015-02-08 09:51, Peter Lebbing wrote: > On 07/02/15 20:43, Hugo Osvaldo Barrera wrote: > > I don't think I'm doing something wrong, but: Am I? Did I miss something? > > Yes, you have interpreted it wrong. What you are doing now is this statement: > > "I trust Hugo Osvaldo Barrera checks identities carefully before signing keys. > However, I do not know whether 1BFBED44 is really his key". So the statement > doesn't actually get you anywhere. And the fact that you're speaking in the > third person about yourself is lost on GnuPG, which doesn't know that. > > Since it is your own key (right?), what you want here is "trust: ultimate". > > Normally, what makes a key valid is that it is signed by a /trusted/ key. Note > the difference: key B is /valid/ because key A, which is /trusted/, signed it. > But this has to start out somewhere. This is usually your own key(s), which > are assigned "ultimate" trust, which means: this key is also valid, even > though it is not necessarily signed by a trusted key. > > The option to use for your /own/ keys therefore, is usually "5 = I trust > ultimately". And when you are convinced someone is actually the legitimate > owner of a key, you would sign their key. Whether you would assign them any > trust depends on whether you think this person is trustworthy enough to rely > on their signatures on other people's keys. > > HTH, > > Peter. > > -- > I use the GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG) in combination with Enigmail. > You can send me encrypted mail if you want some privacy. > My key is available at <http://digitalbrains.com/2012/openpgp-key-peter>
Yes, you're right in that sense. I just wanted to put it in slightly less trust so as to recognize it more easily. I don't want to sign my *old* key with my new one either. I'll have to rethink how I organize myself a bit in that aspect. However, the issue at hand is another: even if I set a trust of 5 (ultimate), the next screen still shows it as unknown and that doesn't change. If I delete my keyring, and re-import both secret keys, only the first of both that I set to ultimate is actually shown as ultimate, and the second is always shown as unknown. -- Hugo Osvaldo Barrera A: Because we read from top to bottom, left to right. Q: Why should I start my reply below the quoted text?
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