Both of my Linux systems were recently involved in a test of
about a dozen plus replacments for OpenSuse 11.4 and Ubuntu 10.04.
After all the experimenting was over I ended up with the same
operating systems but swapped with each having the OS that was
on the other machine before the experimentati
On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 01:32:33 +0200 (MET DST), Johan Wevers said:
> Are uid's also stored in the secret key? I thought they only existed
For historic reasons the user IDs are also stored in the secring.gpg.
This is an internal detail and will eventually change.
Shalom-Salam,
Werner
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Eric wrote:
>Deleting a uid just means,
>more or less, chopping a block of bytes out of secring.gpg.
Are uid's also stored in the secret key? I thought they only existed
in the public key, since that's the only place where they are needed.
Storing in the secring is double: one can assume that if
On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 14:18 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> when adding a new userid, gnupg understandably requires a
> passphrase,
>
> why doesn't gnupg require a passphrase when deleting a uid ?
>
> (granted, if someone found my secring.gpg, this would be my least
> worry ;-)
>
> but, in p
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In reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s message sent 2005-08-10 17:18:
> when adding a new userid, gnupg understandably requires a passphrase,
>
> why doesn't gnupg require a passphrase when deleting a uid ?
You're not issuing a signature when deleting
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
when adding a new userid, gnupg understandably requires a
passphrase,
why doesn't gnupg require a passphrase when deleting a uid ?
(granted, if someone found my secring.gpg, this would be my least
worry ;-)
but, in principle,
shouldn't all key editing functions requ
when adding a new userid, gnupg understandably requires a
passphrase,
why doesn't gnupg require a passphrase when deleting a uid ?
(granted, if someone found my secring.gpg, this would be my least
worry ;-)
but, in principle,
shouldn't all key editing functions require a passphrase ?
tia,
ve
