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On 01/19/2013 07:48 AM, Alessandro Basili wrote:
> On 18/01/2013 17:10, LeRoy wrote:
>> On 01/18/2013 08:59 AM, Alessandro Basili wrote:
>>> On 18/01/2013 14:41, Andreas Hirsch wrote:
> 
> 
>>> Thanks a lot! Now that is clear that i can send signed messages
>>> I'd like to know why I cannot send the signed message to
>>> [email protected] (my alter-ego) of whom I do not have any key.
> 
>>> A window titled 'OpenPGP Key Selection' opens before sending,
>>> which says:
> 
>>> 'Recipients not valid, not trusted or not found'
> 
>>> Why should I care about the recipient if I simply want to sign my
>>> email?
> 
> 
> 
>> Why don't you edit your key and add a user ID like:
> 
>> gpg --edit-key 0x7388FD80 adduid
> 
> I'm afraid I haven't understood what is this for and how this would
> solve the problem I had. I believe I have an User ID attached to my
> key which correspond to my email.
> 
>> At the same time you might want to add a couple of sub keys (1 for 
>> signing and 1 for encrypting) that have a preset expiration date.
> 
> I believe that if you import my public key you should be able to see a
> primary key (keyID 0x7388FD80) and a sub-key (keyID 0x1622208F) which
> is used for encryption.

[email protected] is not one of the user ID's
Your key looks like:
gpg2 --fingerprint 0x7388FD80
pub   2048R/7388FD80 2013-01-18
      Key fingerprint = 36CE 2A86 53F5 AC4F 2CAD  925E 1A2A CAC4 7388 FD80
uid                  Alessandro Basili <[email protected]>
sub   2048R/1622208F 2013-01-18

With adding an additional UID of [email protected] you could alleviate the
trouble you have had.

If you look at my key you can see several user ID's and etc.
gpg2 --fingerprint C34B77CC
pub   4096R/C34B77CC 2011-11-15
      Key fingerprint = 8AD5 35EF 1FDF F1A7 E483  8CCE A50D 4E81 C34B 77CC
uid                  LeRoy D. Cressy (15 Nov 2011) <[email protected]>
uid                  LeRoy D. Cressy <[email protected]>
uid                  Rev. LeRoy D. Cressy <[email protected]>
uid                  [jpeg image of size 9529]
sub   4096R/02E082A5 2011-11-15
sub   4096R/80A2E788 2012-11-20 [expires: 2014-11-20]
sub   4096R/E9147D70 2012-11-20 [expires: 2014-11-20]

For signing and encrypting the 2 subkeys are used until they expire when
GnuPG reverts back to using the original key pair.  Also when you go to
a key signing party all of your UID's can be signed.  When I do a job
for a company I might have a temporary email address with the client
which would become an additional UID instead of creating a new key pair.


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gpg fingerprint:  8AD5 35EF 1FDF F1A7 E483  8CCE A50D 4E81 C34B 77CC

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