Re: Fingerprint useless if not self-signed key?

2011-01-02 Thread Grant Olson
On 1/2/2011 11:04 AM, takethe...@gmx.de wrote: > And thankfully David Shaw answerd: > >>> By default, yes. You can override this, >>> but it is not a good idea. > > Thus the answer to the question, whether one needs to check whether the key > is self-signed is conneced with the word "override"

Fingerprint useless if not self-signed key?

2011-01-02 Thread takethebus
Hi everybody, and thanks for the answers so far! I'm goint to write an introduction to GnuPG/PGP and therefor I'm trying to understand some concepts. Especially I wonder what I'll tell people about the meaning of the fingerprint. From my point of view a fingerprint-check is useless, if the ke