On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 01:06:18PM +0300, Oskar L. wrote: > I'm about to generate a new keypair, and got a few questions. > > I have many e-mail addresses and change them frequently, and therefore I > don't want to have one in my public key. (Also because I'm afraid of > getting spam.) I think this would be easier than having to update a lot of > user IDs. Are there any any drawbacks in not having an e-mail address in > the public key? Are there any widely used applications that will expect > one, and not work if none is found?
Yes, common sense. if you submit your key to a keyserver, there should be some way to distinguish your key from hundreds of other having the same short name, when searching for a key. Sidenote: you are getting spammed anyway, it is better to invest in filtering infrastructure (greylisting, spamassassin, bogofilter), than play whack-a-mole with spammers, with you being the mole. > Is there any way to manually set the time that will be used for the > creation time? Or do I have to change the system time if I don't want to > use the current time? I'm a bit of a perfectionist, and think 00:00:00 > looks much better than something like 01:42:57. It looks unnatural and doctored. Alex -- JID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP: 0x46399138 od zwracania uwagi na detale są lekarze, adwokaci, programiści i zegarmistrze -- Czerski _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users