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overhauled the trustdb stuff

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For more see the chapter "The Web of Trust" in the
Manual [gpg: Oops: Internal error: manual not found - sorry]
Q: How do interpret some of the informational outputs:
A: While checking the validness of a key, GnuPG sometimes print
some informations which are prefixed with information about
the checked item:
"key 12345678.3456"
This is about the key with key ID 12345678 and the internal
number 3456, which is the record number of the so called
directory record in the trustdb.
"uid 12345678.3456/ACDE"
This is about the user ID for the same key; to identify the
user ID the last two bytes of a ripe-md-160 over the user ID
tring is printed.
"sig 12345678.3456/ACDE/9A8B7C6D"
This is about the signature with key ID 9A8B7C6D for the
above key and user ID, if it is a signature which is direct
on a key, the user ID part is empty (..//..).