Robert J. Hansen wrote: > > GnuPG always asks IIRC new users for their Name and email address > > and does not tell them in advance that they can use a free form UID, > > without an email address, thus being able to use a key for multiple > > accounts or purposes, without adding additional UIDs. > > It is not the job of the command-line interface to teach users the > subtleties and nuances of OpenPGP. If users want to know the many > different ways GnuPG can be used they need to read the documentation. > > If you think this use-case is important enough it should go in the > manpage or FAQ, let's discuss that. But the command-line user > interface is the wrong place to be teaching people about unusual use > cases.
We now have the situation that either parents or teachers, etc. can choose between a software which allows UID-less public key generation, for their minors / students, themselves, or a software which does not accept this and has no guidelines for free-form UIDs in their FAQ / man page, nor an equal treatment in the standard key generation process. Regards Stefan -- Signal (Desktop) +4915172173279 https://keybase.io/stefan_claas _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users