Newbie Question

Thomas Bulka ml at tbulka.org
Thu Apr 1 14:56:14 CEST 2004


Am Donnerstag, 1. April 2004 08:50 schrieb Ivan Boldyrev:
> On 8700 day of my life Thomas Bulka wrote:
> > Hi,
> > as a GnuPG-Newbie I want to ask a very basic general
> > understanding question.
> > If I generate a key, is it supposed to work only
> > with the email-Address I entered during the generation
> > process?
>
> Really e-mail addresses are important only when someone encrypts
> message to you from mail client or from any other program that
> uses e-mail for selecting a key.
>
> > I mean, can I sign mails sent from another adress with this
> > key or am I supposed to create another key for every address I
> > use?
>
> As you was told, you can add more user IDs.

I sent another email to the list yesterday but somehow it got lost.
I just wanted to thank you for your help, this works fine
for me.

Thomas






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