-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 bezna wrote: > Hello,
> > Which is correct? Are signatures an inherent part of the key or are they > stored extrinsically? > > > George i would put it this way, when I run gpg in command line mode I create a user ID and a secret key + a public key. that is assigned my real name and armored, Then I meet up at the keysigning party and they all verify it, later I think i can append other email addresses to the same private key, I don't know if i can assign a fake private name like Lordbyte Whirlfield or Dick Tracey or whatever, as long as you don't take the identity from someone else, your digital name can be whatever. but for privacy and spam and prevention of identity theft I hope that can be possible. Some people prefer not to put that on a keyserver, simply for preventing spam, and fraud. But I am only familiar to gnuPG, what is the case for a root certificate or exactly how that can be revoked I don't know. http://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/manual.html http://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/manual.html#CONCEPTS signatures are an inherent part of a key, but you can anytime create new keypairs, for any key you can assign a new artificial name. This is only my limited understanding of this, please correct me if I'm wrong. Morten -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (SunOS) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkhSk8gACgkQ9ymv2YGAKVTKAQCeMB17XYXPxp5O4EkW4sl2U1nO IwcAn3GcCIDin8BaDHoOcs5Zw4khj6Wq =+WJ3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
