Re: keys require a user-id

2020-05-19 Thread Mark
Just to test this out I tried creating a new key in Kleopatra with no name and then with just a single name and it would not let me do it. It had to have a first and at least a last initial.  On 5/19/2020 7:29 AM, Robert J. Hansen wrote: >> With the freeform approach, when I would have to use (aut

Re: keys require a user-id

2020-05-19 Thread MFPA via Gnupg-users
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi On Friday 15 May 2020 at 11:12:31 PM, in , Peter Pentchev wrote:- > to generate a random UID? Would a random UID be the way to go? How about a placeholder UID that was replaced at the end of key generation by a UID that matches the key-ID or

Re: keys require a user-id

2020-05-19 Thread Stefan Claas
Robert J. Hansen wrote: > > With the freeform approach, when I would have to use (auto) > > generated random chars or the fingerprint then I would have > > problems memorizing if this was your, dkg's or Werner's public > > keyblock and it could be also more error prone (typos), when using > > thi

Re: keys require a user-id

2020-05-19 Thread Robert J. Hansen
> With the freeform approach, when I would have to use (auto) generated > random chars or the fingerprint then I would have problems memorizing > if this was your, dkg's or Werner's public keyblock and it could be > also more error prone (typos), when using this method, in CLI mode. --group {name=v