User ID length requirement

[David Shaw]

On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 06:25:52PM -0400, Todd wrote:

> Does someone know if it's required in the OpenPGP spec that a user id be 5
> characters or greater?  I am "cursed" with a 4 letter first name and when I
> try and generate a new key or add a new user id with just my first name, gpg
> gives me the error "Name must be at least 5 characters long."  I can easily
> work around this by using Todd. or something like that (or by using pgp,
> which doesn't seem to care about the uid length).
> 
> I see this comes from g10/keygen.c and looks to be easily modified, but I'm
> curious if this is part of the spec or not.

It is not part of the spec.  You can turn off the check and put
whatever you want in the user ID with the '--allow-freeform-uid' flag

David

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