As I said in my previous thread, I never paid much attention to PGP
commands in muttrc (mostly because the given sample always worked), so
now that I have, I'm curious about the purpose of --always-trust flag to
GnuPG in pgp_encrypt_only_command and pgp_encrypt_sign_command options.
It's there in every single example of these options on the Internet, but
I just don't see what does a particular trust model have to do with
encrypting a message (not to mention forcing one).
GPG itself lets me encrypt a file to a recipient whom I marked as
untrusted (and whose key I haven't certified) without problems. Just for
fun I left out the flag from my muttrc, and it doesn't seem to have any
effect, the key is selected properly and so on, just like when the flag was
there.
So my question is: What am I missing and how am I shooting myself in the foot
by leaving it out? :)
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