On 21/05/2020 14:34, LisToFacTor via Gnupg-users wrote: >> The proper thing for gpg program to do would be to allow the > personally identifiable information in the key to be optional, > and to warn the user generating such key that he will not be able > to participate in the Web of Trust.
I think you're getting overly hung up on the web of trust. The contents of the User ID are independent of the WoT - they exist to tell your email program which keys belong to which correspondents. You can use a WoT with keys that have no email addresses in them, so long as the verification chain is cryptographically valid and you have the appropriate settings in your trustdb. Your WoT could be made up of Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse and Goofy - the only time the UID's contents become important (as opposed to its certifications) is when you want to send an email to presid...@whitehouse.gov you should have a valid key that has "presid...@whitehouse.gov" in either its User ID or local alias (as RJH pointed out above). -- Andrew Gallagher
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