I'm referring to the information you see for example in the prompt to enter your private key when you have received an encrypted message in Thunderbird/Enigmail. The window "pinetry" prompts "Please enter the pass...2048-bit RSA key, ID DEADBEEF, created ... (main key ID ABCD0123)." Notice there are two key ID mentioned in the window, one called Main, which is also the public Key ID, (the one I expected, the one I remember) and the other for the secret key (which I have Never Paid any attention to).
Frankly, I had never even noticed that before I ran into a little app for the iPad called iPGMail that actually ONLY prompts me for my secret key by asking for it by the secret key ID. Now, you gotta grant that there is nothing incorrect or inaccurate about asking for the desired key by its actual identification. But it sure isn't normal in my experience to do it that way. It caused me no end of troublesome investigation until I tumbled to what was actually being asked for was technically the Correct ID, but it certainly wasn't the Commonly Used Method, in my experience. See what I mean? Ken OxE2557AA7
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