Re: Upgrade to Fedora-26 vs gpg download verification

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On Thu, 2017-07-27 at 14:41 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote:
> The warning here is telling you that gpg can't say with any certainty 
> that the key which made the good signature is a key you trust, because 
> the fedora key isn't signed by you or someone you have told gpg you 
> trust.
> 
> This warning is, IMO, something which is completely reasonable to 
> ignore in this particular case.  (It is an entirely valid warning and 
> in many other cases where you'd be verifying a gpg signature it would 
> be important inoformation that should affect your trust of a 
> signature.)
> 
> Your trust in the fedora gpg key is intended to come from the fact 
> that you've downloaded it via https directly from the fedora site (as 
> opposed to getting it from a keyserver or a mirror).  All trust starts 
> somewhere, after all. :)
> 
> Hope that helps,

Thanks very much for this very helpful reply.

jon
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