Re: Expanding web-of-trust with subkey

2017-03-08 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 16 Feb 2017 15:31, tliko...@iki.fi said: >> please be aware that if you switch from "trust-model direct" to >> "trust-model tofu+pgp", then your previous assignments of "trust" will >> transform into indications of "ownertrust". > > That has been my assumption. Thanks for verifying. I'll

Re: Expanding web-of-trust with subkey

2017-02-16 Thread Teemu Likonen
Daniel Kahn Gillmor [2017-02-15 13:46:13-05] wrote: > right, so your use of "trust-model direct" switches the meaning of the > "trust" flag from its usual "ownertrust" semantics to be what we'd > normally call "validity". > > Note also that when you mark a key itself as "trusted" in this way, >

Re: Expanding web-of-trust with subkey

2017-02-15 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On Wed 2017-02-15 11:54:51 -0500, Teemu Likonen wrote: > That makes things very simple, in a way. I use "trust-model direct" and > do some checking in web pages or check consistent use of signatures. If > the key seems ok I'll "--edit-key", type "trust" and assign marginal or > full trust for that

Re: Expanding web-of-trust with subkey

2017-02-15 Thread Adam Sherman
On 2017-02-15 10:33 AM, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: >> How do you do that? Is there a type of sub-key you use? >> > No, just a completely separated primary key with C capability, no > subkeys and is never published anywhere, rotated regularly to issue > lsigns for short term use Ah, that makes

Re: Expanding web-of-trust with subkey

2017-02-15 Thread Teemu Likonen
Didrik Nordström [2017-02-14 19:02:08-08] wrote: > How do you handle key management? Let's say you just want to send a > signed and encrypted email once to someone who announced their pubkey > over https? What type of trust would you assign? I don't personally know anybody who uses gpg. Even if

Re: Expanding web-of-trust with subkey

2017-02-15 Thread Kristian Fiskerstrand
On 02/15/2017 03:27 PM, Adam Sherman wrote: > On 2017-02-15 06:51 AM, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: >>> Do I need access to my master key in order to expand my web of >>> trust? This seems like quite a restriction. >> Yes, although you can generate a local CA key to use for this purpose >> for

Re: Expanding web-of-trust with subkey

2017-02-15 Thread Adam Sherman
On 2017-02-15 06:51 AM, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: >> Do I need access to my master key in order to expand my web of >> trust? This seems like quite a restriction. > Yes, although you can generate a local CA key to use for this purpose > for short term validity considerations used for local

Re: Expanding web-of-trust with subkey

2017-02-15 Thread Peter Lebbing
On 15/02/17 13:34, Peter Lebbing wrote: > I've written a bit about ownertrust for the keysigning party we held > last December: Additionally, this topic is also briefly covered in the FAQ[1], which is an up-to-date and maintained piece of documentation. The The GNU Privacy Handbook[2] also

Re: Expanding web-of-trust with subkey

2017-02-15 Thread Peter Lebbing
On 15/02/17 04:02, Didrik Nordström wrote: > I wanted to send an email to a new contact (a bug report to a software > project) so I added the public key and assigned it "Fully trusted" (4). In addition to Kristian's answer, let me clarify: "Ownertrust" is your assessment of how much you want to

Re: Expanding web-of-trust with subkey

2017-02-15 Thread Kristian Fiskerstrand
On 02/15/2017 04:02 AM, Didrik Nordström wrote: > > So.. Do I need access to my master key in order to expand my web of > trust? This seems like quite a restriction. Yes, although you can generate a local CA key to use for this purpose for short term validity considerations used for local

Expanding web-of-trust with subkey

2017-02-15 Thread Didrik Nordström
Hi, I am new to using PGP in general, but fairly confident in the cryptographic primitives and the overall concepts. I have issued a master key on cold storage, and subkeys on my primary machine (one with encryption and one with signing privileges). I wanted to send an email to a new contact (a