Many Thanks to Tiago Faria <ti...@xroot.org> Date:Sun, 2 Jan 2011 05:57:00 +0000
for excellent notes on editing GPG Keys. I had found neither GPA nor Kleo to have all of the edit capability that should be available for a key and in particular on the User ID and preferences for symetric ciphers the key to this is that you use command line ( no problemo ) and then use the --edit-key to open a dialog. I was used to using PGP and in that every command has its own --command format the one thing that Tiago didn't touch on in his example ==> For example: setpref S9 S8 S7 S3 H10 H9 H8 H11 Z3 Z2 Z1 Z0 will configure a UID (these preferences are UID-based) to use: Cipher: AES256, AES192, AES, CAST5, 3DES Digest: SHA512, SHA384, SHA256, SHA224, SHA1 Compression: BZIP2, ZLIB, ZIP, Uncompressed Hope this makes it easier for you to understand and edit to suit your needs. I think I didn't miss anything, but feel free to correct me :) <== is: how does S9 equate to AES256 ? there has to be a way to find the equivalence between the verbose codes and the short hand The User ID on a key may ( at the owner's option ) contain more than just the e/mail address. If I remember rightly PGP will search any matching string in a key to use as and identifier so this could be a phone number or an employee number. Phone numbers, employee numbers, and e/mail addresses all tend to change when we change our affiliations so this would leave a question as to the best way to identify a key For the purpose of ENIGMAIL the e/mail address would seem to be the best choice. Even though I am changing e/mail address or even though I have several e/mail addresses -- the public keys for these are on the server and if you address mail to me via ENIGMAIL it will find the key associated with the e/mail address you are using. All Good. Happy New Year All!
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