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On Sunday 20 March 2011 at 6:31:49 PM, in <mid:4d864815.6020...@adversary.org>, Ben McGinnes wrote: > On 20/03/11 1:52 PM, MFPA wrote: >> Whether on a keyserver or on your local keyring, I see >> little difference. > Which just shows how your use differs with that of > others. I have a number of keys on my keyring and when > I list them I like to see which key belongs to which > identity/account (I don't care if it's a real name or > not, just as long as I can see something that makes > sense to me). Hashed IDs, depending on how common they > became, would make this and key management difficult. All fair enough but the reason I see little difference between personal information being on other people's local keyrings or on keyservers is covered in the next sentence, which you agreed with. >> Keys that exist on local keyrings sooner or later tend >> to end up on keyservers. > True. >> The first two or three times I looked at PGP and >> GnuPG, I found the apparent requirement to include >> personal information in user IDs repulsive and >> therefore moved on without any further study. A >> feature such as this might have attracted me to study >> further and maybe adopt sooner. > No offence, but I think this is more a lack of > imagination. I think my second key ever used a > pseudonym with no email address or comment and it was > made the same day as my first one. No offence taken. When I eventually looked into it I realised the requirement for including the email address, although strongly suggested by most descriptions and how-to articles I found, was not real. One of the first keys I created was the one use to I sign these messages; the <a@b.c> is because whatever PGP version I was using wouldn't create a key without an "email address" of string@string.string and I was unaware of example.net at the time. - -- Best regards MFPA mailto:expires2...@ymail.com Is it bad luck to be superstitious? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQE7BAEBCgClBQJNhpBfnhSAAAAAAEAAVXNpZ25pbmdfa2V5X0lEIHNpZ25pbmdf a2V5X0ZpbmdlcnByaW50IEAgIE1hc3Rlcl9rZXlfRmluZ2VycHJpbnQgQThBOTBC OEVBRDBDNkU2OSBCQTIzOUI0NjgxRjFFRjk1MThFNkJENDY0NDdFQ0EwMyBAIEJB MjM5QjQ2ODFGMUVGOTUxOEU2QkQ0NjQ0N0VDQTAzAAoJEKipC46tDG5pILYD/iCq cplQC5D1+3RVeOO/w08C3haZyEOcCP7f8nQwZ8+qKczsWzpES6vUIKmy6NavawQZ GFWAJv2paLAtoH8rNencYVx1w0pOooimGMZ7bLL7ShgiljkeUz1ESOvXO+V2iE2Y wj8Re258FTkIVhvhWjjqQAF9UH8AQmXOEbyAip19 =meYo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
