Re: [tool / utility] check-trustpaths, a command-line tool for retrieving and checking chains of signatures in the web of trust

2016-05-05 Thread Johannes Nix
Hello Bernhard, > I like the idea, I'll probably try it once I have a need for > the use case. Maybe you can add a link to your tool to > wiki.gnupg.org? Sure, if that's OK for a still somewhat experimental stage. > Did you consider pyme or > pygpgme? (See https://wiki.gnupg.org/APIs ) I did se

[tool / utility] check-trustpaths, a command-line tool for retrieving and checking chains of signatures in the web of trust

2016-05-04 Thread Johannes Nix
I wrote a small tool for automatically retrieving and checking trust paths between two PGP keys. This was motivated by me experiencing difficulty when verifying signed Linux distribution images or downloads for web software using GnuPG. The PGP Pathfinder Service provided by Henk P. Penning allo