[kdepim-usability] untrusted pubkeys

[Jan Muehlig]

Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> On Monday 27 September 2004 17:30, Jan Muehlig wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>working on a redesign of the encryption and signature behavior in
>>KMail, I experienced a strange or rather unexpected thing in KMail.
> 
> 
> Would you mind briefly describing what you have in mind?
Just working out how KMail should behave in order for users to easily 
use and appreciate encryption/signatures without security risks. Give me 
another week and I will show you our suggestions.


> So the answer to your question depends on what you've meant my "trust". 
> Since you talk about setting a key to trusted it seems you meant "owner 
> trust". In this case the answer is "No" (see a)).
The reason for my question was: why can't i encrypt a mail to someone 
whose pubkey i obey/received? (At least this is my conclusion from the 
actual behavior of KMail 1.7). I assume therefore that you have to trust 
a key before you can use it (--edit-key trust). Is this true?

Tx,
Jan
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