[wellylug] GPG Question

[Jethro Carr]

On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 10:21 +1300, David Murray wrote:
> > okay, I think you have gone barking up the wrong tree. ;-)
> >
> > with a GPG key, you have a key. But inside this key you have user id's
> > for each email address. You can have more than 1 uid in your key.
> 
> 
> Would you care to elaborate further on UIDs and gpg keys. I was under the 
> impression that inside a key you had a subkey - the public key - which you 
> can sign.

I'm not sure what the subkey system is, but I think that this is
separate to that.


> Do you mean more than one signature in your key?
> 
> I was under the impression that a key was specific to one name and one 
> email address, and that if you change either then the key won't work.
>

no, you can have multiple email addresses in a key.


> > You have given me instructions for creating more keys, and then you have
> > related it to my login id.
> 
> Well what other UID is there?? And didn't you want a new key for your new 
> email address?

load up GPG, and edit your key. You'll find out about UID's.


> > I wish to know if there is a way I can create a new uid, and have all my
> > signatures transfered/copied to this new ID, so I don't have to try and
> > get people to resign my key.
> 
> Surely the easiest way would be to revoke the key and issue a new one.

I would lose my signatures. I want to know if there is a way around
this.


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Jethro Carr

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