UID of secret key gone (OT)

[Werner Koch]

On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Jörg Ziefle wrote:

> joerg at norad:~/.gnupg > gpg --list-secret-key
> /home/joerg/.gnupg/secring.gpg
> ------------------------------
> sec  1024D/68FBD67F 2000-01-18 
> ssb  1024g/CB70CD4D 2000-01-18

The user IDs are actually not needed in the secret key but they are
normally created to make the listening easier.  I think we should drop
the user IDs entirely from the secring and enhance the listing
function to lookup the name in the public keyring.  This makes some
syncronisation issues in keyedit.c even easier.

> Is there a way to recover the secret key, that means to edit the secret
> key to get back its User ID?

Until we do not have a swiss-knife tool to manipulate OpenPGP packets,
there is no easy solution. 

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