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
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,
[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
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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 a
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
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
