On 05/17/2010 12:47 PM, MFPA wrote: > Nearly 20% of the keys in my keyring have something in the User ID > that is clearly not part of a person's identity. > > What would you say was a non-dubious use of the "comment" field within > the User ID?
I've been asking myself the same question; i haven't come up with a clear answer. The closest i've come is when someone uses the comment field to state an organizational affiliation specifically for use with that key, to differentiate from another key, such as: 0xDECAFBAD Maria Lopez (Foo Corp. Administrator) <[email protected]> 0xDEADBEEF Maria Lopez (Personal Use) <[email protected]> Even these messages might be better stored some other way, though. For example, as OpenPGP notations in the self-signature. What do you think? When are comments in the User ID field actually useful? --dkg
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