Multiple UIDs or multiple master keys?

2020-07-13 Thread Philihp Busby via Gnupg-users
1: When revoking a UID from my key, it asks for a reason. What happened to reasons 1, 2, and 3? Please select the reason for the revocation: 0 = No reason specified 4 = User ID is no longer valid Q = Cancel 2: What benefits benefits are there to having separate master keys for personal an

Re: Multiple UIDs or multiple master keys?

2020-07-13 Thread Robert J. Hansen
> 1: When revoking a UID from my key, it asks for a reason. What > happened to reasons 1, 2, and 3? Let's hop in the Wayback Machine and look at the old specification for OpenPGP, called RFC2440. = 5.2.3.22. Reason for Revocation (1 octet of revocation code, N octets of reason string)

Re: Multiple UIDs or multiple master keys?

2020-07-14 Thread Ingo Klöcker
On Dienstag, 14. Juli 2020 02:48:06 CEST Philihp Busby via Gnupg-users wrote: > 2: What benefits benefits are there to having separate master keys for > personal and professional use? Outside of not wanting the identities > linked, because I am not yet famous enough for that. You might not want to

Re: Multiple UIDs or multiple master keys?

2020-07-14 Thread Phil Pennock via Gnupg-users
On 2020-07-14 at 00:48 +, Philihp Busby via Gnupg-users wrote: > 2: What benefits benefits are there to having separate master keys for >personal and professional use? Outside of not wanting the >identities linked, because I am not yet famous enough for that. When the day comes that I

Re: Multiple UIDs or multiple master keys?

2020-07-14 Thread Philihp Busby via Gnupg-users
On 2020-07-14T11:20:53+0200 Ingo Klöcker wrote 2.5K bytes: > On Dienstag, 14. Juli 2020 02:48:06 CEST Philihp Busby via Gnupg-users wrote: > > 2: What benefits benefits are there to having separate master keys for > > personal and professional use? Outside of not wanting the identities > > linked

Re: Multiple UIDs or multiple master keys?

2020-07-15 Thread Ingo Klöcker
On Mittwoch, 15. Juli 2020 05:03:17 CEST Philihp Busby via Gnupg-users wrote: > On 2020-07-14T11:20:53+0200 Ingo Klöcker wrote 2.5K > bytes: > > On Dienstag, 14. Juli 2020 02:48:06 CEST Philihp Busby via Gnupg-users > > wrote: > > > 2: What benefits benefits are there to having separate master key

Re: Multiple UIDs or multiple master keys?

2020-07-15 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Wed, 15 Jul 2020 11:03, Ingo Klöcker said: > But it will create problems for people who want to send you encrypted > messages > because there's no way for them to know which of the encryption subkeys to > use. You may work around this by making sure that the non-personal encryption BTW, I