On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 01:08:13PM +1300, Michael Beattie wrote: > On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 10:54:31AM +1100, Anand Kumria wrote: > > The restriction on additions I can understand by why the restriction on > > updates? > > I may be wrong there, lets make it an AFAIK. > > > At least one problem I can see with that is that those who are migrating > > over to GPG keys will send an update of the PGP key which is signed by > > their new key. Having the chain of trust in the keyring would be helpful. > > I didnt think you could sign an RSA with a DSA. (that pgp would understand > anyway..)
You can but PGP will complain about unsupported packet types. Eventually it will corrupt your public keyring. GPG will do the signing in both directions without corrupting things. Regards, Anand
