On 09/15/2015 09:50 AM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > On Tue 2015-09-15 06:39:34 -0400, Mike Acker wrote: >> be sure you are not confusing validity (signed ) with trust ( setting ) > > To clarify what Mike says here: > > the validity of a key for a given user ID answers the question "does > this key belong to the person identified by the User ID?" >
You also make some good points and I will keep the rest of your reply as a reference, but I wonder if my confusion is a lack of understanding of what the Enigmail Key Management window View menu Display untrusted keys setting does. I've turned on the Key Validity and Owner Trust columns and this is what I see when I have the Display untrusted keys setting checked: [ Enigmail Key Management (window) ] Name: Key ID Key Validity Owner Trust Cert I Trust <[email protected]> 8675309 trusted trusted Jacob Lee Anawalt <janawalt@.. 956CE319 ultimate ultimate Past Coworker <[email protected]> BADFOOD - unknown Other CoWrkr <[email protected]> DEADBEEF - unknown So 0xBADFOOD and 0xDEADBEEF are not signed by me, 0x956CE319. They did have owner trust of trusted but now they do not yet they still show up in the list. I signed 0x8675309 (Jenny...ha!) before I started using Enigmail but I did not set ownertrust on it. It did not show up in the list above. Neither did any other key I had signed but had not set ownertrust on. I used Enigmail to set ownertrust on 0x8675309 and it showed up in the list. I used Enigmail to remove ownertrust on 0x8675309, setting it back to unknown, and still it shows up in the list. I expected the ones with no owner trust to disappear, but again I don't know exactly what Display untrusted keys really means. I haven't found it in the documentation. I'm just guessing based on observations. -- Jacob Debian 7 Icedove (Thunderbird) 31.8.0 Enigmail 1.8.2 (20150416-1748) -- From downloaded xpi, not from Debian _______________________________________________ enigmail-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or make changes to your subscription click here: https://admin.hostpoint.ch/mailman/listinfo/enigmail-users_enigmail.net
