Thanks for your helpful answers, Hauke and Peter! I have a followup question, if you don't mind: How much history is saved in a gpg key?
Say, for example, I have a gpg key with uid1 associated, and I publish that. Then, I add uid2, but before handing out my updated gpg key to anybody, I decide to do things differently, e.g. change the comment or email in uid2, or remove uid2 altogether. Maybe I add a subordinate key only to remove it afterwards, say, because I consider it to be too weak after all. After these operations, I publish my key again. Can other people see the full history of what I did in the meantime, or do they just see what I ended up with? If parts of the history can be retrieved, what would I have to do to see what's saved? Thanks again! On 8/13/2014 at 1:19 PM, "Hauke Laging" <[email protected]> wrote: > >Am Mi 13.08.2014, 12:23:24 schrieb Peter Lebbing: > >> > Can she add a new UID of the same name "Alice ><[email protected]>" to >> > her gpg key again? >> >> I'm pretty sure that, yes, you can. > >Give it a try... > > >> practice, you'll usually see that it will be encrypted to the >last >> created non-expired key. > >Not the last created but the last self-signed one (may differ e.g. >after >expiration). > > >Hauke >-- >Crypto für alle: http://www.openpgp- >schulungen.de/fuer/unterstuetzer/ >http://userbase.kde.org/Concepts/OpenPGP_Help_Spread >OpenPGP: 7D82 FB9F D25A 2CE4 5241 6C37 BF4B 8EEF 1A57 1DF5 _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
