Re: Changing the email address of a key

2012-09-07 Thread Richi Lists
That worked. Thanks a lot! Rgds Richard On Do, 2012-08-30 at 10:48 +0200, Peter Lebbing wrote: On 30/08/12 10:25, Richi Lists wrote: Using the primary key was what I tried first. But when I saw the error message signing failed, I thought I'd have to force the proper signing subkey, like I

Re: Changing the email address of a key

2012-08-30 Thread Richi Lists
Using the primary key was what I tried first. But when I saw the error message signing failed, I thought I'd have to force the proper signing subkey, like I have to do for signing emails. My setup is more or less the following: http://wiki.fsfe.org/Card_howtos/Card_with_subkeys_using_backups with

Re: Changing the email address of a key

2012-08-30 Thread Peter Lebbing
On 30/08/12 10:25, Richi Lists wrote: Using the primary key was what I tried first. But when I saw the error message signing failed, I thought I'd have to force the proper signing subkey, like I have to do for signing emails. My setup is more or less the following:

Re: Changing the email address of a key

2012-08-29 Thread Peter Lebbing
On 28/08/12 21:54, Richi Lists wrote: Will this also write also to the smart-card or are the changes only in the local keyring? UIDs are not stored on the smartcard, so it does not matter. I'm a bit hesitant because the full disk encryption on my netbook works also with the same key, and I

Re: Changing the email address of a key

2012-08-29 Thread Richi Lists
I can't get it to work wether I try it on the primary or the sub key and whether I use gpg or gpg2. Rgds Richard $ gpg2 -v --edit-key E8401492! gpg (GnuPG) 2.0.17; Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO

Re: Changing the email address of a key

2012-08-29 Thread Peter Lebbing
On 29/08/12 13:53, Richi Lists wrote: I can't get it to work wether I try it on the primary or the sub key and whether I use gpg or gpg2. [...] $ gpg2 -v --edit-key E8401492! [...] gpg: using subkey E8401492 instead of primary key 0AE275A9 Secret key is available. Why are you forcing

Re: Changing the email address of a key

2012-08-28 Thread Werner Koch
On Mon, 27 Aug 2012 23:57, pa...@cs.hmc.edu said: You can add or delete the names and emails associated with a key using gpg --edit-key and the adduid and deluid commands, respectively. You may use deluid only if you never published your public key. The better choice is revuid. Thus if you

Re: Changing the email address of a key

2012-08-28 Thread Peter Lebbing
On 28/08/12 10:37, Werner Koch wrote: gpg --edit-key YOURKEYID addkey # Now follow the prompts Surely, Werner meant adduid which adds a new e-mail address, and not addkey which adds a new subkey. HTH, Peter. -- I use the GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG) in combination with Enigmail. You

Re: Changing the email address of a key

2012-08-28 Thread Mika Suomalainen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi, 27.08.2012 23:59, Richard Ulrich kirjoitti: When I generated my new private key, I used one of my email addresses. This email address is stored both on the crypto stick (smart card) and in the secring.gpg or pubring.gpg, probably both. Now

Re: Changing the email address of a key

2012-08-28 Thread Richi Lists
Will this also write also to the smart-card or are the changes only in the local keyring? I'm a bit hesitant because the full disk encryption on my netbook works also with the same key, and I don't want to reinstall the whole thing. Rgds Richard On Di, 2012-08-28 at 10:49 +0200, Peter Lebbing

Changing the email address of a key

2012-08-27 Thread Richard Ulrich
When I generated my new private key, I used one of my email addresses. This email address is stored both on the crypto stick (smart card) and in the secring.gpg or pubring.gpg, probably both. Now I would like to use that key with another email address. Is it possible to change the email address

Re: Changing the email address of a key

2012-08-27 Thread pants
On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 10:59:03PM +0200, Richard Ulrich wrote: Is it possible to change the email address of a key, and how would I proceed to have it on the stick and in the gpg stub files? You can add or delete the names and emails associated with a key using gpg --edit-key and the adduid