[Enigmail] Setting trust levels for unknown keys

Olav Seyfarth olav at mozilla-enigmail.org
Wed Apr 29 07:17:22 PDT 2009


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Hi Andy,

> The "I do NOT trust" option seems, to me, to be negative. If a scale
> were to be drawn it seems to me that the "I don't know" option" would be
> at the origin, with "I do NOT trust" at -1 and the other options at +1
> and above.

I do NOT trust seemst to be intended to mark forged keys.

GnuPG 1.4.9 -> \g10\pkclist.c -> check_signatures_trust() :

    case TRUST_NEVER:
      /* currently we won't get that status */
      write_status( STATUS_TRUST_NEVER );
      log_info(_("WARNING: We do NOT trust this key!\n"));
      log_info(_("         The signature is probably a FORGERY.\n"));
      if (opt.with_fingerprint)
        print_fingerprint (pk, NULL, 1);
      rc = G10ERR_BAD_SIGN;
      break;

Olav
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