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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: [RFC] Change in OpenPGP support
From:       Ingo =?iso-8859-1?q?Kl=F6cker?= <ingo.kloecker () epost ! de>
Date:       2001-10-19 19:31:46
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On Friday 19 October 2001 06:43, David Bishop wrote:
> On Thursday 18 October 2001 04:18 pm, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'd like to remove the current possibility to encrypt messages with
> > untrusted keys with PGP5 and GnuPG.
> > What do you think?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Ingo
>
> My gut reaction is that restricting capabilities beyond what gpg
> allows will result in a lot of bug reports and unhappy users. 
> Whether or not it is wise is obviously debatable, but oft times I
> don't *have* a "trusted" key to sign something with.  Just my
> non-coding opinion :-)

If you want to sign something then you need a secret key. And if you 
have a secret key then this key is automatically ultimately trusted by 
GnuPG. Trusting untrusted keys is only needed if you want to encrypt 
something with the public key of someone else.

Regards,
Ingo
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