> Names are tremendously fluid instruments. Charles Martel, the hero of > France, didn't actually have a last name...
Oh, man -- I completely forgot the great one from modernity. You can be elected President under a pseudonym. Not only that: *it's already happened*. President Ulysses Simpson Grant. His real name was Hiram Ulysses Grant. That's what's on his birth certificate. When he was seventeen he asked Congressman Thomas Hamer to nominate him for West Point (the American Army's military college). Hamer got the name wrong and wrote it down as "Ulysses Simpson Grant". Grant refused to correct Hamer's error, though, as he thought that "U.S. Grant" was a much better set of initials for a military officer than "HUG". So if a pseudonym's good enough to get elected President of the United States... is it a pseudonym at all? Would you refuse to sign Ulysses S. Grant's certificate on the grounds that "well, that isn't your *real* name"? _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users