Re: authenticated email

Alexandru,

I think me replying to your questions here is no substitute for reading a 
good introductory text on PGP....... all this is explained, sometimes in 
gruesome detail, in the
--On onsdag, juni 04, 2003 14:57:21 +0200 Alexandru Petrescu 
<petrescu(_at_)nal(_dot_)motlabs(_dot_)com> wrote:
> Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:
> > > Can't I just create a public key with the Harald's name and email
> > > address and then post to this list claiming I'm Harald?
> >
> > However, those who care about whether it's me or you posting will
> > look at who signed it - that's why my key block is so huge; it's got
> >  all these signatures dangling from it....
> So the level of trust depends on the number of signatures?
>
> Can I also ask other lots of people to sign the key I create and then
> pretend I'm Harald?
>
> Otherwise, if certain of people who signed your key are "special", or
> are highly trusted, can I ask who are those people?
That's for me and you to decide.... I decide who I trust, you decide who 
you trust. In my current keyring, I trust only 12 people.....

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