Mailing List Archive

On Mon, Dec 27, 1999 at 08:33:05PM -0800
ReFlex wrote:

> Is is possible to have multiple keypairs using the same user ID with GPG? If it

Sure. However I don't think that it makes much sense. You should at
least use different comment strings in the user IDs (the text inside
the parenthesis).

> is possible, how does one differentiate between the different keypairs when (for
> example) exporting (or editing) a specific keypair, or decrypting a message that

Using either the key ID (e.g. 0x211CC013) or the fingerprint (which is
like a much longer key ID).

> was originally encrypted using a public key from one of the keypairs with the

An encrypted message usually contains the key ID of the key to be used
for decryption. The program handles this itself.


--
Werner Koch at guug.de www.gnupg.org keyid 621CC013

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Thanks for the quick replies, Werner Koch and Brian Galbraith.

Just one last question.. How do I find out what a key's ID is?

Thanks again,
ReFlex
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