Help me on CommandLine Key Deletion in GPG 1.0.7

[Enzo Michelangeli]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Werner Koch" <wk@gnupg.org>
To: <gnupg-devel@gnupg.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 3:07 PM
Subject: Re: Help me on CommandLine Key Deletion in GPG 1.0.7


> > Actually, I never liked substring matching much: I would prefer exact
> > matching (the one triggered by the leading "=") to be the default
behaviour,
>
> PGP dis it this way and for list keys it makes sense.

Yes, but it does it also for other operations such as encryption or
signature verification. Mistakes in those cases may have unpleasant
consequences, causing security breaches.

Enzo