Signing A Key - Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE DESKTOP 11 - APPLICATION GUIDE 17-03-2009 Application Manual

1 Click Computer > More Applications > Tools > Passwords and Encryption Keys.
2 Select the keys you want to export.
3 Click Edit > Copy Public Key.

11.6 Signing a Key

Signing another person's key means that you are giving trust to that person. Before
signing a key, carefully check the key's fingerprint to ensure that the key really belongs
to that person.
Trust is an indication of how sure you are of a person's ability to correctly extend the
web of trust. When you are faced with a key you have not signed, the validity of that
person's key will be determined based on the signatures they have collected and how
well or not you trust the people who have made those signatures. By default, an unknown
key will require three signatures with marginal trust value or one fully trusted signature.
1 Click Computer > More Applications > Tools > Passwords and Encryption Keys.
2 Select the key you want to sign from the Trusted Keys or Other Collected Keys
tabs.
3 Click Key > Sign.
4 Select how carefully the key has been checked, then indicate if the signature
should be local to your keyring, and if your signature can be revoked
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