On Sun, 6 Feb 2011 20:46, [email protected] said: > The User ID is the most commonly-used way to *find* the key -- but it > does not identify the key. It identifies the user. The fact that > people are willing to cryptographically bind the User ID to the key (via
In OpenPGP parlance the term "key" is used as a synonym for the term "keyblock" which in turn is the OpenPGP saying for a "certificate". To refer to the actual key material (plus some meta information), we use the term "public key packet". Shalom-Salam, Werner -- Die Gedanken sind frei. Ausnahmen regelt ein Bundesgesetz. _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
