Make GPG ask about cert-level

Posted by hank, Sun Jul 22 17:23:00 UTC 2007

I was sad to find that my GnuPG installation wasn’t asking me about cert-level when I was tsigning keys today. To turn it on, I put the following at the bottom of my ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf:


ask-cert-level

Now, when doing tsigning, it will ask how well you checked the identity of the person whose key you are signing. Like this:


How carefully have you verified the key you are about to sign actually belongs
to the person named above?  If you don't know what to answer, enter "0".

   (0) I will not answer. (default)
   (1) I have not checked at all.
   (2) I have done casual checking.
   (3) I have done very careful checking.

Your selection? (enter `?' for more information):

Horray!

Tags: encryption gpg linux