For efficiency reasons a local keyring of public keys will also be maintained, however, the local keyring will only contain a copy of the key certificates present in the database. The synchronization of the database with the local keyring will be made as often as possible. See also section 4. for more details. The key certificate detailed in the certif attribute belongs to the PGP key with the id hhhhhhhh. The present certificate belongs to a key for digitally signing messages using the specified method.
Any method attribute present in the object at the time of the submission for creation is ignored.
The method has to be consistent with both the prefix of the id in the key-cert attribute and with the certificate contained in the certif attributes. Any owner attribute present in the object at the time of the submission for creation is ignored. Any fingerpr attribute submitted to the robot is ignored. Obviously the order of the lines is essential, therefore the certif attribute lines are presented at query time in the same order as they have been submitted at creation. Therefore, the existence of a mntner object is a prerequisite for the creation of a key-cert object.