No warning on 'gpg -a -o somewhere.gpg -s -r someone <file>'

[Len Sassaman]

On 9 Nov 2001, Pascal Scheffers wrote:


> > upset if other people were able to export these addtional key ids.
> Exporting should not really matter, because they would be signed by
> something that is not an ultimately trusted key. Add that restriction
> and you're fine.

Except that in most implementations  of OpenPGP, *cough NAI's PGP cough*,
such user-ids would be indistinguishable at a glance from owner-created
ones.

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Len Sassaman

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