[vox-tech] gpg: do we ever have to change trust level for our keys?

[Doug Huckaba]

Today, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:

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> > On Friday 26 July 2002 01:09 pm, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> > > 12:30pm:
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> > > gpg doesn't seem to recognize that my key is trusted anymore.
> > >
> > > is this normal?
> > 
> > Are you using gpg 1.07? If you are, then this is probably a new feature. Take 
> > a look at the docs, there must be a way to disable it.
>  
> yeah, i'm using 1.07.
> 
> matt roper had the same problem -- he couldn't verify anyone's signature
> because his own private key lost its trust rating.  therefore,
> everyone's key that he signed instantly became untrusted.
> 
> i spent about 30 minutes figuring out what happened.  i emailed him what
> i had found earlier, and he found that the same thing had happened - his
> private key lost its trust rating.
> 
> i already looked at the changelog, but didn't find anything useful.

I was playing with this (after a recent discussion) and noticed an 
expiration on the keys when they are generated. Now, I don't know much 
about this (yet), but it almost sounds like your trust rating might have 
"expired"???

> 
> pete
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