From: Greg A. Woods Date: Mon, 03 May 2010 00:59:34 GMT Subject: Re: PATCH: Less fragile lookup of gpg key Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7v7hnn4cun.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> At Sat, 01 May 2010 12:54:24 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: Subject: Re: PATCH: Less fragile lookup of gpg key > > If I have two keys like these: > > Junio C Hamano > Junio Hamano I'm not an expert on PGP internals or such, but I think that's a really bad thing to do. I'm surprised you were able to get gpg to do it in the first place. I would have hoped it wouldn't allow it. As far as I can tell it's _not_ compatible with other implementations of PGP. PGP keys normally are searched by the e-mail portion only. All the other stuff (comments and the display name, etc.) is for decoration only. This is just as it is in e-mail routing too of course. You can of course have more than one e-mail address per key, but you should NEVER have more than one key per e-mail. I.e. it's less reliable in the first place to have two different keys which can be found using the same e-mail address. -- Greg A. Woods Planix, Inc. +1 416 218 0099 http://www.planix.com/