On Fri, 4 Feb 2011 20:08:08 +, MFPA wrote:
> IMHO, the comment field is firmly in the "you don't need this at all"
> category. If Heinrich Heine really wants his UID to be
> "Heinrich Heine (Der Dichter) " he can
> type "Heinrich Heine (Der Dichter)" in the name field and
> "heinri...@duesseld
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On Thursday 3 February 2011 at 11:22:54 PM, in
, Doug Barton wrote:
> FWIW I would love to see the comment field moved to
> expert mode since it rather clearly qualifies under the
> "If you don't already know that you need this, you
> don't n
On Thursday 03 February 2011, Matthew James Goins wrote:
> Personally I've never seen a comment that helped me identify the
> owner of a key in a meaningful way.
In my keyring there are several keys where the comment contains the date
of birth (and in some cases even the place of birth) of the ow
Daniel Kahn Gillmor writes:
> I'd like to propose that GnuPG only prompt the user for a "Comment" for
> their User ID under --expert mode.
I totally agree with this proposal. If someone wants to add a comment,
they should be able to, but I believe that prompting for this on every
key generation
On 02/04/2011 01:12 AM, Werner Koch wrote:
> Many might nor know that
> there is a help feature for every input field:
Indeed, i had no idea that this was the case. Thanks for the tip.
> but many more users are using a GUI for key generation and thus it is up
> to the GUI to preset the comment f
