[Freedombox-discuss] Would you sign a key with a pseudonymous keyholder name?

Elena ``of Valhalla'' elena.valhalla at gmail.com
Thu Jul 19 08:59:45 UTC 2012


On 2012-07-19 at 10:25:05 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> As I understand it, the "levels" I assing to a signature are for my own 
> private bookkeeping, not part of the signature so not published if the 
> signature gets published, so levels are less of a concern here (only 
> relevant for revealing you if our enemy got access to private parts of 
> my GPG key, which would have much worse uses than read "rankings" of 
> signatures issued by me.

Actually the levels (0-3, with no default meaning) are published 
together with the signature, it's the trust level (i.e. how much you 
trust the signatures made by the owner of that key) that are kept 
private.

-- 
Elena ``of Valhalla''
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