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Hi Daniel,

>> a key to be used for signing must be valid, non-expired and trusted

my mistake, sorry, my post was just plain wrong.
Thank you for your excellent writeup on terms/definitions.


To be used for signing, a key does not have to be trusted nor valid,
it just needs to be non-expired, non-revoked and well-formed.

To be used for encryption, a key needs to be valid (referring to your
"key+userID combination" definition of what valid is) or Enigmail could
be set to also accept non-validated keys to encrypt-to.


So:

> Is this check really in place?  should it be?

No.

> Would patches be welcome to improve the terminology around validity and 
> trust?

That is up to Patrick to decide.


Personally, I like the terms
- - "well formed" (and avoid "valid" to express technically correct)
- - "validated" (expressing that a person assigned trust)
- - "trusted-user" (which I consider even more clear than "user trust")
But as non-native speaking, this might be wrong.
Also mind that these terms need to be translated and fit into
- - the language used by the translator
- - the terms usually used within other OpenPGP products
- - and the Mozilla naming conventions.

Olav
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The Enigmail Project - OpenPGP Email Security For Mozilla Applications
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