On 01/27/2015 01:08 PM, Jean-David Beyer wrote: I do not know the answer. There could be a man in the middle, or I might have the wrong address for adele.
I cannot call adele on the telephone and ask for her fingerprint, since I do not know her personally and would not recognize her voice. ;-) And how would I get her telephone number in such a secure way that I really knew it was hers and not someone else? So in one sense it is hopeless. ~> Ok. I'm going to reply to your message even though I'll get yell at again for "breaking the thread" -- which I do not understand and have no clue regarding... your are dealing with the Trust Model. It is All Well and Good to acquire a key,-- either PGP/Desktop or Gnu Privacy Guard (GnuPG). And once you have that key you can verify that it checks with the signature on a given message. This still leaves you to resolve the question: who, really, does this public key belong to? If you have read Zimmerman's original documentation you know there are two methods: (1) direct contact with the owner of the key, or (2) verification via a 3d party "introducer" -- know to both parties and trusted by both. In the end you only fully trust yourself and so you are finally responsible for setting the trust level on any public keys that you chose to trust. what method you use -- is up to you. for people like Adel- whom you cannot contact -- you leave the key in an UNTRUSTED condition. I am going to sign this for you. but you don't know me from Adam. so, you leave my key in an untrusted condition. There are other correspondents on this wire who will recognize me. > _______________________________________________ > enigmail-users mailing list > enigmail-users@enigmail.net > To unsubscribe or make changes to your subscription click here: > https://admin.hostpoint.ch/mailman/listinfo/enigmail-users_enigmail.net -- /Mike
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