Good day, and hello to the autoresponder (%]##{}#%^!!!) (just my opinion, mind
you).
I've been toying with PGP GPG GnuPG and whatever on and off since mid 1995, but
recently have become interested again as the political situation in the US
seems to warrant it. (Warrant? We don't need no stinking warrants...) anyway...
I have a question about procedure...nomenclature, actually. Is it normal to
refer to the private key by its own keyID, or by the KeyID of the mating public
key? The public fingerprint is the one known by others (natch) and it's the
identification I associate with the key pair. Is there any time when it is
appropriate to refer to my private key by its own KeyID? I understand that each
of the two eight-character sequences is unique, and so the private key is in
fact not accurately identified by using the public key's ID, but is it common
to do so? Seems to me it would be less confusing (for me, any way) to be
prompted with the Main KeyID than with that of the private key.
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