Signed key contains signer's user ID?

Gregor Zattler telegraph at gmx.net
Sat Jan 1 17:57:00 CET 2011


Hi Sansibar,
* takethebus at gmx.de <takethebus at gmx.de> [01. Jan. 2011]:
> does a signed key contain the signer's user ID 

no

> or only his key ID? 

yes

> Do you need to posses the signer's public key to see where he
> is the signer of a signed key? 

yes

> My gpg works that way, but I wonder whether it simply
> suppresses the display of the signer's user ID, if I don't
> posses his public key.

no.


Ciao, Gregor
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