What are trust, validity and ownertrust?
With GnuPG, the term “ownertrust” is used instead of “trust” to help clarify that this is the value you have assigned to a key to express how much you trust the owner of this key to correctly sign (and thereby introduce) other keys. The “validity”, or calculated trust, is a value which indicates how much GnuPG considers a key as being valid (that it really belongs to the one who claims to be the owner of the key). For more information on trust values see the chapter “The Web of Trust” in The GNU Privacy Handbook.
– “ownertrust” is used instead of “trust” to make clear that this is – the value you have assigned to a key to express how much you trust – the owner of this key to correctly sign (and so introduce) other – keys. “validity”, or calculated trust, is a value which says how – much GnuPG thinks a key is valid (that it really belongs to the one – who claims to be the owner of the key). For more see the chapter – “The Web of Trust” in the Manual. + With GnuPG, the term “ownertrust” is used instead of “trust” to + help clarify that this is the value you have assigned to a key + to express how much you trust the owner of this key to correctly + sign (and thereby introduce) other keys. The “validity”, or + calculated trust, is a value which indicates how much GnuPG + considers a key as being valid (that it really belongs to the + one who claims to be the owner of the key). For more information + on trust values see the chapter “The Web of Trust” in The GNU + Privacy Handbook.
