Error while trying to encrypt

[Bart Martens]

On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 04:16:58PM -0400, Nelson, Andy wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Receiving the following error when trying to encrypt a file with someone's
> public key
> 
> 
> 
> Could not find a valid trust path to the key.  Let's see whether we
> can assign some missing owner trust values.
> 
> No path leading to one of our keys found.
> 
> **then it list the contents of the key**
> 
> It is NOT certain that the key belongs to its owner.
> If you *really* know what you are doing, you may answer
> the next question with yes
> 
> 
> Anyone seen this before???
> 
> Thanks,
> Andy


Yes. You should read the text at http://www.pgpi.org/doc/pgpintro/
or some other introduction to PGP, to fully understand concepts like
the "web of trust" en "trust path". The paragraph at
http://www.pgpi.org/doc/pgpintro/#p17 is relevant for your question.