On 28/08/12 21:54, Richi Lists wrote: > Will this also write also to the smart-card or are the changes only in > the local keyring?
UIDs are not stored on the smartcard, so it does not matter. > I'm a bit hesitant because the full disk encryption on my netbook works > also with the same key, and I don't want to reinstall the whole thing. Understandable. If I understand correctly, you used GnuPG to encrypt the file that unlocks your netbook? In that case, the *uid commands should be safe, because they do not influence decryption of files. To be on the safe side, keep a copy of your key as it is now, and after you changed the e-mail address, try to decrypt some file. If that works, it should also decrypt the file that unlocks your netbook. It is wise to keep a copy of your key as it is now around just in case, anyway. If you do something wrong, you can take the backup and start over. Peter. -- I use the GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG) in combination with Enigmail. You can send me encrypted mail if you want some privacy. My key is available at http://wwwhome.cs.utwente.nl/~lebbing/pubkey.txt _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
