Re: ITP: debian-backports-keyring -- GnuPG archive key of the backports.org repository

On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:19:49 +0200 Tollef Fog Heen wrote:

> * Francesco Poli 
[...]
> | If you modify a GPG public key, you obtain something that no longer
> | corresponds to the original private key (obviously).
> 
> No, the most common modification done to a GPG public key is adding a
> signature to it in which case it still corresponds to the original
> private key.

Fair enough.
Even though adding a signature is more adding something to a work than
modifying the existing work...

Anyway, adding a signature does not require access to anything but the
public key itself in the form in which it's normally distributed by
keyservers.  As a consequence, I would say the remainder of my previous
reasoning still holds...

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