-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 Joseph Oreste Bruni wrote: > 2. Your key ID will be a number (e.g. CD55 18C7) not your name. If > the name you indicate matches more than one key, the first is > assumed. The only way to exactly specify a key is by its > (relativetly) unique key ID. "Andrew Berg" returns my old key; "Andrew Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" returns the newer key. > I'm not sure if this answers your question. Here is another answer > to your question with a different interpretation: If you have a key > with multiple UID's and you want to change your primary UID, select > the UID using "UID #" and then use the "primary" command from > within the "--edit-key" menu. They're two different keys.
John Clizbe wrote: > If you have multiple keys that match a given search term, ie > "Andrew Berg", then the easiest way to avoid ambiguity is to refer > to the keys via the short hexadecimal key ID Yeah, but I tend to remember my name much more easily than my key ID. > 0xdecafbad :-D > You also may wish to specify the new key as the default-key along > with various other helpful settings in gpg.conf. I can't get the format right. I thought of something: why not delete the old key outright? Not only has it been revoked, but that email address doesn't even exist anymore (which is why I revoked it). - -- Windows NT 5.1.2600.2180 | Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 | Enigmail 0.95.1 | GPG 1.4.7 Key ID: 0x60A78FCB - available on major keyservers and upon request Fingerprint: 4A84 CAE2 A0D3 2AEB 71F6 07FD F88E 0340 60A7 8FCB -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQEVAwUBRn1gPfiOA0Bgp4/LAQMUpwgAhBArAUPuyvfUlXPRem3zvk9x+Fd/epg3 jycxsSJr/RpMW94xKPZ4Sb2OmHLgWK8ua56AwgM2q6Hap/LuSKIXpqab/hZF4OOC eKmbWAufhIPnfLaXbJZt7xTrM6TcvntTKq+LAL/UVqeER6omZhl2ty6OECQG0bXl O50vK0JmojGnpdU240WSEJGUZjMjsQIuhsVeBzCL/uXKWx/Wgp+pMkZ1Htwz+z+j WUT+bIicVwCBBJFGMLhJChL4TZ8sZtDFgBTDTrwS4PH9HyBTqYqHEMaG5KhYm8St wdtgbTz/A5BadUAo57OaLWmTI5kQlUt54T6lvLK8HPJTCWhsVMP5Fw== =pfJZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
