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Re: [PLUG] GPG - Keysigning
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The way GPG works, in a nutshell, is that you can create a key, but it
does you no good unless people trust you to be who you say you are. For
example, I could very easily create a key saying I am Linus Torvalds, and
send forged emails to the LKML using this key. But, since no one trusts
me, the forgery will easily be detected. Therefore, it is necessary to
"sign" others' keys to trust them. Take a look at these:
http://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/manual.html#AEN554
http://www.herrons.com/kb2nsx/keysign.html
which hopefully can explain better than I have.
On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, John Beck wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> What is the purpose of a keysigning? I read all the information of PLUG's site, and looked at the information on http://www.gnupg.org/ but still am not sure on the purpose, or how it is used...?
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
Mark Schonbach, NetRealities
http://www.netrealities.com
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