On Sat, 2010-02-27 at 19:21 +0000, MFPA wrote: > There is a widespread perception (rightly or wrongly) that exposing > your email address publicly on the internet will lead to that email > address being spammed into oblivion. The new openPGP user is exhorted > to create a key pair using their name and email address as the UID, > and to upload this key to a server. That advice, coupled with the > default configuration's enforcement of including an email address (or > something that appears to be one) clearly has the potential to scare > potential users from experimenting with openPGP in the first place.
GnuPG doesn't, at least as of 1.4.10, force you to include an e-mail address in your user ID. It merely requests an e-mail address, and you can just press enter and ignore the request. _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users