[ale] emailing public dsa key (good, bad or ugly?)

[Robert Reese]

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On 1/25/2006 at 2:37 PM David Corbin wrote:

>On Wednesday 25 January 2006 06:52 pm, Michael Hirsch wrote:
>> Why bother?  Why not just send the public key?  Isn't that why it's
>called
>> "public"?  It should be safe to publish the key in an newspaper or blog.
>>  Is there a risk we haven't heard of?
>>
>> You solution requires him to publish his public GPG key.  Doesn't the
>same
>> question apply?
>
>The issue, I think, is one of idenitity/integrity.  How does the reciever
>know 
>the key he recieves has not been "tweaked" during the sending?  That is,
>it's 
>not that the public key is "something to hide", it's just something to be 
>SURE is from who you think it's from.

That's the difference between "Validity" and "Trust".  The definition of
this is 'switched' from what you'd instinctively think.  Anyway, here is a
link to get better info than I'd ever be able to give:
<http://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/manual.html#AEN335>

Cheers,
Robert~

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