From 623aef0f5ac9e56d9654d96bdeb3b096592f611e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Kahn Gillmor Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 11:39:28 -0400 Subject: added ridiculously scant first draft of document about gpg trust model. --- website/trust-models.mdwn | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+) create mode 100644 website/trust-models.mdwn (limited to 'website') diff --git a/website/trust-models.mdwn b/website/trust-models.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000..60aa680 --- /dev/null +++ b/website/trust-models.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +[[meta title +You can see your trust database parameters like this: + + gpg --with-colons --list-key bogusgarbagehere 2>/dev/null | head -n1 + +for me, it looks like this: + + tru::1:1220401097:1220465006:3:1:5 + +These colon-delimited records say (in order): + + * `tru`: this is a trust database record + * ``: the trust database is not stale (might be 'o' for old, or 't' for "built with different trust model and not yet updated") + * `1`: uses new "PGP" trust model: this is just the old trust model plus trust signatures. I'll go into trust signatures later. + * `1220401097`: seconds since the epoch that i created the trust db. + * `1220465006`: seconds after the epoch that the trustdb will need to be rechecked (usually due to the closest pending expiration, etc) + * `3`: Either 3 certifications from keys with marginal ownertrust are needed for full User ID+Key validity + * `1`: Or 1 certification from a key with full ownertrust is needed for full User ID+Key validity + * `5`: max_cert_depth (not sure exactly how this is used) + + -- cgit v1.2.3