-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 19/01/2013 15:21, LeRoy wrote: [] >>> 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. >
I now understand your point, even though I believe you missed mine. I used [email protected] as a recipient for testing purposes only and not as an a.k.a. of the same key pair. > 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]e 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. I indeed thought in the beginning that for a key pair there was only one email account bound to it, but I guess this was a very silly assumption. I now have two key pairs for two different email accounts. Any suggestion on how to 'merge' them? Should I simply revoke one and use the other adding an user ID to it? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJQ+rSMAAoJEBoqysRziP2AouYIALYH+vmJAcEO7+HTWP87pFAt skMbZ3GOZ1EtuEEd+eFq6WiWIfek1mHLYxzuxkeEJdHJLfbuNqmXk0FPonw3RPqh jIJlXi+9IqE9sKl4s7tYUvKsoxwD/ID0zOGT8GUBZ/aVx5fGtZMrCrBWDmmcjh7S p08oxdytgDYjCjY4095GpZKIPSLM7GobM7UKZL7qbnsMd/5HjJSc8ewswhflHUxS Iy7/HniSRmsZUg1D7mLZOkye1Z1CRpJQQdgGU7Z181N8DLOCnFa3hkU2sigTB359 K4GIbCaPq7Ty65g50Y4UUx2fI/FmY+C4gM3bHgYFuA4nk41PakKHZrPB+iyvllc= =jv8Z -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ enigmail-users mailing list [email protected] https://admin.hostpoint.ch/mailman/listinfo/enigmail-users_enigmail.net
