Faramir wrote the following on 4/7/11 8:29 PM: > Oh, well, encryption faeries soon or latter will upload your keys to > keyservers. And you can't prevent people from signing it, specially the > newbies reading support lists.
I can't prevent it, but I may naively expect people to respect conventions. And as you write further in your remarks, there is such a thing as a local (non-exportable) signature. >> I didn't invite this person to sign my key. > > Yes, but the default setting of GnuPG is not encrypt to untrusted > keys, so the first thing a newbie might do is to sign the keys of people > providing support in the list. After all, "trust all" doesn't sound any > good. "Trust all keys" is expedient and "not good". Again: local signature. > But local signatures is something we don't learn on the first day. Eventually, one learns. > your new key might be uploaded, if one day one of your correspondents drink > decaffeinated > coffee by mistake. One must accept to live dangerously :-) Thank you for remarks. Charly _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
