Re: OT: More about GPG signing
On Thu, 2012-05-10 at 16:07 +0000, Camaleón wrote:
On Thu, 10 May 2012 17:45:22 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 2012-05-10 at 16:14 +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote:
> >> Alternatively, should I just ignore the signature, in which case
why is
> >> the sender polluting the list with useless crap?
> >
> > That's the problem.
>
> (...)
>
> And what's _what you think_ the problem is?
>
> The problem here is that users *don't understand* what a GPG/PGP
> signature is.
>
Or some do fake that they are dummies, while they aren't?!
On Thu, 2012-05-10 at 17:16 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote:
> On Thu, 10 May 2012 17:59:34 +0200
> Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net> wrote:
>
> Hello Ralf,
>
> > This resulted in "Valid signature, but cannot verify sender (Phil
> > Dobbin <bukowskiscat@gmail.com>)":
>
> Because there's no web of trust involving people that both you and the
> keyholder know.
Exactly and this is valid for the majority on mailing lists.
Btw. funny photo.
- Ralf
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