Re: Practical use of gpgsm for verifying emails

2018-04-30 Thread Teemu Likonen
Jens Lechtenboerger [2018-04-30 08:19:39+02] wrote: > You don’t. You should not trust them if you don’t know anything about > them. > Personally, I try to verify CAs’ fingerprints. Afterwards, I express > my “trust” in other people’s choices of CAs when verifying their > signatures (so, pretend “

Re: Practical use of gpgsm for verifying emails

2018-04-30 Thread Jens Lechtenboerger
On 2018-04-28, Teemu Likonen wrote: > When verifying an S/MIME message gpgsm (I think) asks whether I > ultimately trust some certificate authority to certify others and then > asks me to verify that a displayed fingerprint belongs to the authority. > How do I know? (So far I have pressed the "Can

Practical use of gpgsm for verifying emails

2018-04-28 Thread Teemu Likonen
I read email with Gnus (Emacs) and from time to time someone has signed his mail with S/MIME (X.509) system. My Gnus tries to verify signatures automatically and it works nicely with PGP/MIME but S/MIME is more difficult. When verifying an S/MIME message gpgsm (I think) asks whether I ultimately t