[Enigmail] Setting trust levels for unknown keys

[Andy Ruddock]

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I receive quite a bit of signed mail via mailing lists to which I'm
subscribed. I download keys for many of these and have a question
regarding the trust settings to apply for these keys.

In the OpenPGP Kay Management window I select a new keys and right-click
and select "Set Owner Trust", which gives me five options, the first two
of which are "I don't know" and "I do NOT trust".

For these unknown keys I generally select "I don't know", but I could
also choose "I do NOT trust" as I have no knowledge of the person or how
the key was generated or is used.
The "I do NOT trust" option seems, to me, to be negative. If a scale
were to be drawn it seems to me that the "I don't know" option" would be
at the origin, with "I do NOT trust" at -1 and the other options at +1
and above.

I wonder how other people use these settings.

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Andy Ruddock
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