Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

** Changed in: seahorse (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

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Title:
  creating PGP key should warn about comment field

Status in “seahorse” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: seahorse

  When creating a new PGP key with seahorse, it displays a tantalizing
  "comment" field without warning newbies that this will become part of
  their encryption string.

  Steps:

  1) Open seahorse
  2) File -> New
  3) Select "PGP Key"
  4) Enter Name, email address, /and comment/
  5) Finish rest of steps

  What happens? I get a key string like "David Tombs (my stupid comment)
  <cyan.s...@gmail.com>", where everyone will see my stupid comment.

  What should happen: Seahorse should tactfully warn the user like GPG
  does:

  You need a user ID to identify your key; the software constructs the user ID
  from the Real Name, Comment and Email Address in this form:
      "Heinrich Heine (Der Dichter) <heinri...@duesseldorf.de>"

  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Sun Mar 21 23:01:23 2010
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Package: seahorse 2.28.1-0ubuntu1
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-20.58-generic
  SourcePackage: seahorse
  Uname: Linux 2.6.31-20-generic x86_64

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