Many email-ids

[Josh Huber]

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omicron <omicron@omicron.dyndns.org> writes:

> I'm a quite new to gnupg or similar things. I've generated my keys
> and also put my pubkeys in a safe location. But i use 5 different
> email-id's for various things. Can all this be used in one key pair,
> or should i generate 5 different key pairs as i 've done now ?

I'd recommend not generating 5 keys.  Just add uids to one key.  For
example, here's my gpg --list-key huber:

pub  1024D/6B21489A 2000-01-20 Josh Huber <huber@mclx.com>
uid                            [revoked] Josh Huber <huberj@wpi.edu>
uid                            Josh Huber <huber@nightshade.org>
uid                            Josh Huber <huber@debian.org>
uid                            Josh Huber <huber@alum.wpi.edu>
sub  1024g/DBC7552B 2000-01-20

You can revoke individual key ids as you can see, and other people
have the choice of only signing individual uids that they know/trust
are yours.

So, unless you're trying to keep your other identities secret (they
will all be displayed when a signature is verified), then the one key
pair is the best route, IMHO.

Now, there still is a problem with verifying signatures -- it lists
revoked uids and doesn't mark them in any way. I think this behavior
should default to not listing revoked uids, and perhaps showing them
with a --show-revoked-uids option.

ttyl,

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Josh Huber

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