decrypt-file updates trustdb?

[David.Vazquez-Landa at ecb.int]

Thanks for the explanation Werner. Does this mean that it is OK then to have write permissions on trustdb.gpg, pubring.gpg and pubring.bak?

Best Regards,

David Vázquez
EDEN Team
European Central Bank
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Werner Koch [mailto:wk at gnupg.org]
> Sent: Friday 24 February 2012 18:11
> To: Vazquez Landa, David
> Cc: ciamarie at my180.net; gnupg-users at gnupg.org
> Subject: Re: decrypt-file updates trustdb?
> 
> On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:48, David.Vazquez-Landa at ecb.int said:
> 
> > understand why, if I'm just decrypting a file, gpg asks for write
> > permission to trustdb.gpg, pubring.gpg and pubring.bak. In other
> > words, I wouldn't expect my command to have to write anything. Alas, I
> 
> If you encrypt something GPG computes the validity of the keys by
> looking at the key signatures and assigned ownertrust values.  The
> trustdb is updated as a result of this.  GPG also keeps a key signature
> validation status cache in the pubring.
> 
> 
> Shalom-Salam,
> 
>    Werner
> 
> --
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