[wellylug] GPG Question

[Jethro Carr]

On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 08:18 +1300, andrej at paradise.net.nz wrote:
> Quoting Jethro Carr <jethro.carr at jedolinux.com>:
> 
> 
> > yes, I would like to keep the existing key.
> > 
> > but I think that the signatures I have gained, are signed against my
> > current email address (aka the UID).
> > 
> > I would like to know if when I delete that email address, if the
> > signatures will remain in the key?
> > 
> > I did a test (aka didn't save the changes) and it appears that if I
> > delete a UID, the signatures against that UID are deleted.

> I may have gotten the whole thing wrong, but I have one
> key with 3 sub-keys (one per e-Mail address), and I can still
> decipher all mails to all accounts. :}

GPG is never easy to understand, I'm probably not too clear about
explaining it myself. :-)

If I delete the existing address, I lose the signatures that were signed
against that email address.

So say you signed "jethro.carr at jedolinux.com", if I changed my email to
"jethro.carr at some_place_other_than_microsoft.com", your signature
against my key would be "lost", as the signature was against the old
email address/UID.


does that make sense? :-/


-- 
Jethro Carr

www.jethrocarr.jedolinux.com
www.jethrocarr.jedolinux.com/index.php?page=cv/cv.php

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