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On Thursday 30 July 2015 at 2:02:17 AM, in <mid:[email protected]>, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > Sure, that would work. But if you're going to do that, > why not just keep the info in your associated > addressbook or other handy database/textfile? the > GnuPG keyring isn't the most efficient data store for > arbitrary data. Fair enough. But keeping it in the keyring is neat, and I'm sure I read somewhere that the .kbx format is more flexible than the old keyring format and stores meta-information about the keys. Local comments seem to me to be a reasonable type of metadata to want to store. They could usefully double as a locally-assigned "UID" or handle for the key, saying "red haired funny tall guy from XYZ meeting" or including an email address that is not in the key's actual UIDs. - -- Best regards MFPA <mailto:[email protected]> Virtual workspace, Virtual Office, Virtual Job -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQF8BAEBCgBmBQJVuf60XxSAAAAAAC4AKGlzc3Vlci1mcHJAbm90YXRpb25zLm9w ZW5wZ3AuZmlmdGhob3JzZW1hbi5uZXRCM0FFN0VDQTlBOEM4QjMwMjZBNUEwRjU2 QjdDNzRDRUIzMUYyNUYwAAoJEGt8dM6zHyXwHe8H/1ftfbGoJv1YIemfgkgOwEQa tXgMRfllYEy3O/WLo4zuVJ3MDKrl6synmfZ+ti6g4F11og71B63FKQLkSp1cdg5U 9FB0w0E7QiPua2TexeW1YusGlODQu9UzFZFEJm9YPSKCA9AAQwVWmd5lDAv9H/UG wNbNRHwBb0TShX1lbjJe6gcrEnLijVPj0O14sQ1TQ//BcZSfnySxe1vJV4AibY7m rNbPHKbJgeCF2J5Ac0pRAdjm3Oq9JYgRNOnEWmqhRdSVVzcDNk+W8G7D8Ch2Q7zb L1BmtbXIo3oFqsqychm40n9n8Na4f8LkyRhefw7i6VCYy6f4Yx+dd4Qnib44AAyI vgQBFgoAZgUCVbn+wF8UgAAAAAAuAChpc3N1ZXItZnByQG5vdGF0aW9ucy5vcGVu cGdwLmZpZnRoaG9yc2VtYW4ubmV0MzNBQ0VENEVFOTEzNEVFQkRFNkE4NTA2MTcx MkJDNDYxQUY3NzhFNAAKCRAXErxGGvd45O1+AP9kuwuMwevNsKNmP/7ENiko5jrH 18OfJc41pSwahJ8zrgD9GBuB5KsTL36Sdr9VZjkvU/Og/k7ZHRf2rLJTzFiWeQs= =Vow0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
