Oskar L. wrote: > I have many e-mail addresses and change them frequently, and therefore I > don't want to have one in my public key. (Also because I'm afraid of > getting spam.) I think this would be easier than having to update a lot of > user IDs. Are there any any drawbacks in not having an e-mail address in > the public key? Are there any widely used applications that will expect > one, and not work if none is found?
- People may have problems searching for your key on a keyserver if you don't have your e-mail address in there. - E-mail clients using PGP won't be able to automatically know which key to use when e-mailing you - they'd have to setup specific mappings. > Why is there no way to generate a RSA keypair in one step, like when you > create a DSA/Elgamal keypair? Why do I first have to create a signing key, > and then in a separate step create an encryption key? This is annoying. Looking at the archives of this very list, it's mainly historial. http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2004-June/022764.html James -- http://www.freecharity.org.uk/ - Free IT services for charities http://www.freecharity.org.uk/wiki/ - The VCSWiki _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
