Re: Unable to verify 64-bit live ISO signature

From	davidson <davidson@freevolt.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Unable to verify 64-bit live ISO signature
Date	2020-06-24 14:30 +0200
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On Wed, 24 Jun 2020 davidson wrote:

One clarification...

[dd]
> Here are three mutually exclusive cases, of what a system may tell
> you, depending on how your reality conforms to conditions (1) and (2)
> above.

...regarding the third case:

> SIGNING KEY UNKNOWN, bailing out: When (2) is NO
>
> gpg: Signature made Wed 24 Jun 2020 06:58:06 AM EDT
> gpg:                using RSA key 2E3F09D22FFDC4ABF32DF441EB18A1C0111F5F49
> gpg: Can't check signature: No public key
>
> All is not well. SUMFILE was not signed by a debian role key (or, at
                    ^^^^^^^
> least, not by one in the keyring you specified).

I should restate that last bit more clearly:

  "SUMFILE.sign does not contain a signature from a debian role key"
   ^^^^^^^^^^^^

> For all you know, SUMFILE.sign could contain the Hamburglar's
> signature! Or Marilyn Monroe's!
>
> And it remains unknown in this case whether (1) is YES or NO. In other
> words, we don't know whether SUMFILE.sign contains *anyone*'s
> signature for SUMFILE.
>
>
> If I have said anything incorrect or misleading above, I hope somebody
> will correct me.

-- 
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form any opinion of your own respecting their propriety. Secondly, you
must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and
thirdly, you must hate a Frenchman, as you do the devil. --H. Nelson

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  Re: Unable to verify 64-bit live ISO signature "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2020-06-24 09:50 +0200
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  Re: Unable to verify 64-bit live ISO signature davidson <davidson@freevolt.org> - 2020-06-24 14:10 +0200
    Re: Unable to verify 64-bit live ISO signature davidson <davidson@freevolt.org> - 2020-06-24 14:30 +0200

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