Trusted Signatures on your Public key?

[Mark H. Wood]

On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Peter Lavender wrote:
> I'm still wading through the reading available on Public Key Crypto,
> one thing I'm not sure about, actully there's a lot I'm not sure
> about, is what I came across reading about the web of trust, was
> getting someone you trust to sign your key.
>
> How does this work?  Does someone I know and trust sign my public key?
> If so, how is that done and do I import it?

That's basically it.  That person probably knows how to do so with the
software he uses.  The GNU Privacy Handbook discusses this rather
generally at:

http://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/manual.html#AEN554

The question I neve see properly addressed is:  how do I discover the
intersection between [people I trust] and [people who use compatible PKC]?
Do you just go around asking all of your friends and associates, "are you
one too?" until you find someone?

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Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer   mwood@IUPUI.Edu
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