I think me replying to your questions here is no substitute for reading a good introductory text on PGP....... all this is explained, sometimes in gruesome detail, in the
--On onsdag, juni 04, 2003 14:57:21 +0200 Alexandru Petrescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:Can't I just create a public key with the Harald's name and email address and then post to this list claiming I'm Harald?
However, those who care about whether it's me or you posting will look at who signed it - that's why my key block is so huge; it's got all these signatures dangling from it....
So the level of trust depends on the number of signatures?
Can I also ask other lots of people to sign the key I create and then pretend I'm Harald?
Otherwise, if certain of people who signed your key are "special", or are highly trusted, can I ask who are those people?
That's for me and you to decide.... I decide who I trust, you decide who you trust. In my current keyring, I trust only 12 people.....
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