Public Key Cryptography Best Practices

In order to use a key, that key must also be trusted.
Once a key is trusted at a high-enough trust level, signing a key will no longer be necessary to use it.
A key can become trusted it by signing it or explicitly trusting it.
For a summary of how trust relationships work and the Web of Trust model, see here.

We will only provide instructions for explicitly trusting a key using the gpg command:

All commands must be run from the hrstgif service account on either stageprodapp01 or stagetestapp01.