* 2021-11-18 13:22:52+1100, raf via Gnupg-users wrote:
> Real names aren't that useful. They're hardly unique,
> even/especially within a single family.
That continues the technical or nerdy point of view. "Real names are not
unique. Therefore they are not (that) useful." Sometimes crypto nerds
On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 04:40:46PM +0200, Teemu Likonen wrote:
> * 2021-11-16 17:06:02+, Andrew Gallagher via Gnupg-users wrote:
>
> > The "Real Name" and "Comment" portions of the userID are mere
> > conventions and, if you have an address book, entirely redundant.
>
> Thanks. That is
On 17/11/2021 18:15, Robert J. Hansen wrote:
Mapping a "Real Name" to an email address is a conceptually different
thing from mapping an email address to a public key.
Except that should we be mapping keys to email addresses in the first
place?
>
When we sign a certificate we make an
Mapping a "Real Name" to an email address is a conceptually different
thing from mapping an email address to a public key.
Except that should we be mapping keys to email addresses in the first
place?
When we sign a certificate we make an assertion that this cryptographic
material is
On 17/11/2021 14:40, Teemu Likonen wrote:
2. Second "address book" is my OpenPGP keyring. It groups persons'
names, their email and other key data. If many keys don't have name
in their user id it could be inconvenience. Computer programs can
find keys but often we need also
* 2021-11-16 17:06:02+, Andrew Gallagher via Gnupg-users wrote:
> The "Real Name" and "Comment" portions of the userID are mere
> conventions and, if you have an address book, entirely redundant.
Thanks. That is rather technical point of view and correct in that
sense. In my opinion it is a
Am Dienstag 16 November 2021 18:06:02 schrieb Andrew Gallagher via
Gnupg-users:
> On Tue, 2021-11-16 at 18:20 +0200, Teemu Likonen wrote:
> > Am I seeing a starting trend here? Do some people think that it is
> > better practice to have only have email address as user id?
Some email providers
On Tue, 2021-11-16 at 18:20 +0200, Teemu Likonen wrote:
> Am I seeing a starting trend here? Do some people think that it is
> better practice to have only have email address as user id? What
> might be their reason? Or maybe it's not a trend and doesn't mean
> anything. I got curious anyway. Add
I have seen a couple of new OpenPGP keys which have only email addresses
as user id's. No person's name at all. I also noticed that Notmuch Emacs
email client was changed in recent months so that it shows only signer's
email when the signature is verified with a valid key, even if key's
user id's
