Re: non-DD contributors and the debian keyring

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Andreas Metzler <ametzler@downhill.at.eu.org> writes:

> Martin Quinson <martin.quinson@tuxfamily.org> wrote:
> [...]
> > Of course, I could (and have) uploaded my key on public servers, meaning
> > that other Debian member could check than a given mail with my address
> > desserve the trust they habitually give me. But those guys would have to 
> > configure their email specifically on people like me[*].
> [...]
> 
> Most of us won't need to change the configuration of their MUA/gpg,
> having a MUA that tries to verify sigs automatically and a gnupg that
> automatically fetches GPG-keys from the nearest keyserver is a pretty
> standard, vanilla setup.
>                 cu andreas

And even if the fetching fails one would just ask the sender for his
key once and add that to the keyring (if its properly signed by some
trustworthy soul).

MfG
        Goswin