On Sun, 29 May 2005, Dave Brondsema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> It would be useful, I think, to get a keyid from a signature, fetch
> and update keys from a keyserver, and get names and email addresses
> from a public key.

I'd prefer to have "fetch key" and "add key to keyring" as separate
activities - and separate from verifying as well.

> Just verifying the signature without showing who's key created it
> (which depends on the above functionality) doesn't do a whole lot of
> good.

True.  So verify*() should not only tell us whether the signature was
valid, but also which key was used to sign.

> Although computing a trust value is what *really* does good.

That's why I had the ValidTrustedSignature and ValidUntrustedSignature
states.  So far I haven't looked into our implementation options to
see whether they support trust calculations at all.

Stefan

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