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@@ -282,6 +282,20 @@ For more see the chapter "The Web of Trust" in the Manual [gpg: Oops: Internal error: manual not found - sorry] - - + Q: How do interpret some of the informational outputs: + A: While checking the validness of a key, GnuPG sometimes print + some informations which are prefixed with information about + the checked item: + "key 12345678.3456" + This is about the key with key ID 12345678 and the internal + number 3456, which is the record number of the so called + directory record in the trustdb. + "uid 12345678.3456/ACDE" + This is about the user ID for the same key; to identify the + user ID the last two bytes of a ripe-md-160 over the user ID + tring is printed. + "sig 12345678.3456/ACDE/9A8B7C6D" + This is about the signature with key ID 9A8B7C6D for the + above key and user ID, if it is a signature which is direct + on a key, the user ID part is empty (..//..). |