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On Monday 17 May 2010 at 8:11:41 PM, in <mid:4bf194ed.7050...@fifthhorseman.net>, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > I've been asking myself the same question; i haven't > come up with a clear answer. The closest i've come is > when someone uses the comment field to state an > organizational affiliation specifically for use with > that key, to differentiate from another key, such as: > 0xDECAFBAD Maria Lopez (Foo Corp. Administrator) > <ma...@foocorp.example> > 0xDEADBEEF Maria Lopez (Personal Use) > <ma...@lopez.example> That can be a useful, but doesn't really need the "comment" field; it could just be typed as part of the person's name. Some would argue that the "role" was part of the individual's identity; the same individual in a different context is effectively a different identity. I support that theory, but am mindful of a person's disparate identities being more like a stew (where each ingredient affects the others) than a series of discrete sausages. > Even these messages might be better stored some other > way, though. For example, as OpenPGP notations in the > self-signature. "Better" as in "more elegantly." But also less visibly. I don't really see how these messages would be handled as an OpenPGP notation; would you envision them simply being displayed? I don't see a meaningful way an implementation could act on the information except to await user input. > What do you think? When are comments in the User ID > field actually useful? I think they are only useful for telling keys apart at-a-glance in a list or GUI. And then, only when the comment is on the primary UID. - -- Best regards MFPA mailto:expires2...@ymail.com Roses smell better than onions but don't make such good soup -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQCVAwUBS/LREaipC46tDG5pAQqw0gQAvPFRviWJHepfUeU+1NGHFhajY03/AyMg CqNSmvYfOandKszaz7CymKPlWPySan6GBvyKK2z/ZM8YiwHgZkBHINX6EcJguVVy Snu6KrCG5Y02kbOLSOPSLIL9wchzT97KcOqb5J+0AcqGAwMPFLcHhOvjixCROV4N AzdOBnUkFeU= =fvc9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
