Collaborate Disseminate
I am doing some unattended key generation using –quick-gen-key and –quick-add-key. I am not clear if the user-id mentioned in the man page offers a way to include a comment:
–quick-generate-key user-id [algo [usage [expire]]]
Two questions on signatures.
I am trying to understand the various types of "trust signature". The man page says, "For more information please read the sections “Trust Signature” and “Regular Expression” in RFC-4880."… Continue reading Validity, Owner Trust, Trust Signatures & Certification Level
I’m trying to figure out how to cross-sign two keys. One reference says we should use:
gpg –local-user 0xfedcba98 –edit 0x76543210 sign
gpg –local-user 0x76543210 –edit 0xfedcba98 sign
That’s an old reference, so I assume we should b… Continue reading gpg: How do we Cross-Sign Keys? (–default-key vs. –local-user)
As discussed in this answer, gpg does not offer the capacity for subkeys to certify (eg. "sign") other keys, though there may be good reason why it should, and they do sign at least one key. As a practical matter, for those of u… Continue reading A solution for the absence of Certifying Subkeys in OpenPGP Certs