-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 El 18-03-2012 5:13, freej...@is-not-my.name escribió: ... > Alright that's a good answer but aren't people just confirming the > email address belongs to a known signer when they sign a key? Does > it really matter what the UID comment is? I think it may be going a > bit too far to say the UID is guaranteed.
You define yout policy about what do you check when you sign a key (or an UID, after all, you sign UIDs on a key, not the key itself). So somebody might check email address and name of the key owner, and ignore the comment, unless it is false (like the comment sayind "USA President"). Others might don't care about the comments at all. > Do I have to do anything with the keys when adding a UID and > deleting the old one? I don't remember. I think you must make the new UID primary UID before being able to delete the old one, but not sure about it. The worst thing that could happen is to get a message saying "you can't delete your primary UID" or something like that. > My question is on a situation I didn't add the comment by mistake > when I created the key and now I'd like to be able to add a > comment. The key isn't signed etc. Thanks. If the key is not signed and it is not on keyservers, just make the new UID, set it as primary, and delete the old one. If the key is available at keyservers, then revoke the old one instead of deleting it. Best Regards -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJPZhtbAAoJEMV4f6PvczxAAoQH/jWRJ/iUvkPw5njP3pGJhXoG FUUpdZmzkzJ3kuYTZwDpzBmn2W5v0pzV/fiZiXGjd3dPunIUg9V1sob0t24X+K34 FMS1T/9uISfZolURJMZav7lFJxW9xTP2CjfCzF76Nz8HVcgAWyAXLt3EvUzq3iQo jcM51jAEhzSCVSNHHnvWIvWUIzUMDDENgyPX90D/cifpjUErNAKEfy6Nytx66BcY HvYy4DNC53M54AXkPktT2UvFMjsDc53N9nedxM6n2PL9GWIJC9QXAd++7hcCFdld cX4mr00I+3t/zd72eo+N4OR0SN4Mq0EbSF9ncMNuzZpC/RJtXvwPXdwMn4Ql7ac= =rU/9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
