certification of signatures

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Sat Oct 18 13:44:28 UTC 2008


Tim:
>> I'm curious about why you'd need to do it with a local key.

Todd Zullinger:
> I consider it preferable is that it prevents new users from signing
> the fedora key with a typical, exportable signature which they can
> easily leak to a keyserver¹ and cost themselves some credibility
> as a key signer.

That was the only reason that I could think of, accidentally
distributing it.  But I wondered if there was more to what you said.
Thanks.

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