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Re: [ESD-translators] Misleading "invalid keys" section?


From: Ineiev
Subject: Re: [ESD-translators] Misleading "invalid keys" section?
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2017 09:24:33 -0500
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)

Hello, Tibias!

On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 03:10:22PM +0100, Tobias Bengfort wrote:
>
> > make a habit of glancing at that bar. The program will warn you there
> > if you get an email encrypted with a key that can't be trusted.
>
> You should not trust the authenticity of an email if it was *signed*
> with an untrusted key. This is also what is displayed in that bar.
>
> On the other hand, *encrypting* a mail with an untrusted key is
> dangerous, but there is *no bar* indicating this. Instead, there is the
> "To send encrypted, accept only trusted keys" setting in Enigmail.

You are right, that passage should read "...email signed with a key
that can't be trusted".

Please report to address@hidden (translators have no direct write
access to emailselfdefense.fsf.org).

Thank you!



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