[ale] Bad signatures on keys?

[Scott Castaline]

On 12/15/2011 02:24 PM, Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> I'm a bit curious, I just did another re-import and then a --check-sigs
> and I saw this at the bottom of the output:
>
> 4 bad signatures
> 1945 signatures not checked due to missing keys
>
> I get the missing keys bit, but the 4 bad signatures I thought was a
> little strange, so I looked into it.  Seems that bad signatures are
> shown with their lines starting with "sig-" instead of "sig!" in the
> --check-sigs output.
>
> The four bad signatures are (output trimmed, they're all on Mike
> Warfield's key and the list is massively huge):
>
> pub   1024R/DF1DD471 1994-04-28
> uid                  Michael H. Warfield<mhw at WittsEnd.com>
> sig-         DF1DD471 1998-04-05  Michael H. Warfield<mhw at WittsEnd.com>
>
> uid                  Michael H. Warfield<mhw at commandcorp.com>
> sig-         DF1DD471 1994-04-29  Michael H. Warfield<mhw at WittsEnd.com>
> sig-3        DF1DD471 2002-10-14  Michael H. Warfield<mhw at WittsEnd.com>
> sig-3        5DEA789B 2011-12-09  David Tomaschik<david at systemoverlord.com>
>
> So, three of the bad signatures on key df1dd471 are from key df1dd471
> and one of the bad signatures is from key 5dea789b, am I understanding
> that correctly?
>
> Also, why is it that David's key shows an invalid signature for the
> mhw at commandcorp.com uid, but not for any of the other uids on that key?
>
> Is there a possibility that something is funky with my
> (brand-spanking-new!) GPG database, somehow?
>
> 	--- Mike
>
>
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Okay so I got curious and did a refresh (gpg --refresh) followed by gpg 
--check-sigs and it got a little weird.
Like:
135 bad signatures
14951 signatures not checked due to missing keys
1 signature not checked due to an error
weird. So WTF did I do wrong?
The output listed names not from our group, some that I've recognized 
around the web but never face to face, although Tom Yu sounds very 
familiar from several years back.
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