On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 12:24:17PM +0800, Charles Jie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > user id (short form, 8 hex digits) - an key ID for your convenience > to specify a key for gpg, not guaranteed to be unique (non-ambiguous) > user id (long form, 16 hex digits) - better ID but who'll use it?
These two aren't user ids but key ids. > 2. In gpg's key listing, I see, eg.: > > pub 1024D/C9C40C31 2001-05-25 Justin R. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > uid Justin R. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > uid Justin R. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > sub 1024g/59FAB546 2001-05-25 > > But what's the 'sub' entry? What's the ID in it? It's a subkey. I think it's explained in the manual (not man page). > 3. When I get clearer with gpg, I try to make my 'uid' more informative > for others. But I found gpg doesn't provide good maintaining method > to update them. You can not update uid except using adduid/deluid. > You can not(?) change the 'preference' order of those uid's. The > worse, I found I have no way to remove my old uid's in keyserver - they > just accumulate. Strange gpg. You can't do this easily, but I think there is something in the manual. Sorry, I don't have the manual at hand, but look at the gnupg homepage. Nicolas
