PGP: Invalid key ?

[Alexander Skwar]

So sprach =BBLars Geiger=AB am 2001-08-18 um 20:20:05 +0200 :
> I just wanted to give a hint. BTW, I don't think that PGP's error

Thanks! :)

> message was so unclear. It told you that it couldn't change the trust
> settings of invalid keys. It's PGP's standard behaviour to expect a user

Jup, that's right - but what's an invalid key?  Maybe a broken key?
Maybe a key PGP doesn't understand fully?  Maybe a bug in PGP?  Maybe a
not validated key (whatever PGP means with this)?

It would have been clear if PGP had said something like: "Can't change
trust on keys *which are not signed by trusted keys*".  Because after
all, the reason PGP refuses to change the trust of the key is because
it's not signed.

No, I'll still say that the error message is confusingly inaccurate.

> to validate a key before it can be trusted. Maybe that's different from

"validate a key"?  Uhm?  That can be anything!  I validated the key
because I created it on the same computer and I transfered it to PGP
just a split second later.  So the key is validated.  And still PGP
refuses to change the trust because it cannot know this.

> GnuPG but I like the way PGP handles it.

I don't.  It's completely my problem which way I handle this - ie. first
signing and afterwards chaning the trust or the other way around.

But ranting about bad error messages of PGP on a GPG is "slightly"
off-topic...

Alexander Skwar
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