About UIDs

[Inamdar, Guruprasad]

I am sorry but I didn't get your last message.

1) I tried to import the key again (I deleted all the keyring files
first)

C:\Documents and Settings\xxxxxx\Desktop>gpg --import newkey.asc
gpg: keyring `C:/Documents and Settings/xxxxxx/Application
Data/gnupg\secring.gpg' created
gpg: keyring `C:/Documents and Settings/xxxxxx/Application
Data/gnupg\pubring.gpg' created
gpg: key FBCFC5F9: secret key imported
gpg: key FBCFC5F9: no valid user IDs
gpg: this may be caused by a missing self-signature
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:           w/o user IDs: 1
gpg:       secret keys read: 1
gpg:   secret keys imported: 1

2) And now If I try to see it using gpg --list-secret-key. I can see it.

C:\Documents and Settings\xxxxxx\Desktop>gpg --list-secret-key
gpg: C:/Documents and Settings/gi185002/Application
Data/gnupg\trustdb.gpg: trustdb created
C:/Documents and Settings/xxxxxx/Application Data/gnupg\secring.gpg
---------------------------------------------------------------------
sec   1024R/FBCFC5F9 2008-10-06
uid                  vijay
ssb   1024R/BE7137CF 2008-10-06
 
3) But if I try to decrypt the file using my private key -
 
C:\Documents and Settings\xxxxxx\Desktop>gpg --decrypt file.pgp
gpg: key FBCFC5F9: secret key without public key - skipped
gpg: encrypted with RSA key, ID FBCFC5F9
gpg: decryption failed: secret key not available


I know PGP can generate public key automatically if its missing from
keyring. Is there any option with GPG. 

So Is there anything wrong with my key? And How can I use gpgsplit to
create public key.?

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Subject: Re: About UIDs

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So does using --edit-key/uid #/primary/save combo just show what uid is
displayed when the message is decrypted/verified by a recipient?	
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David Shaw wrote:
> On Oct 14, 2008, at 6:22 PM, Faramir wrote:
> 
>> I have a question about the UID associated to the key: Are they 
>> placed in the public key, or in both private and public keys?
>>
>> And, if I have a key with 2 UIDs, and I sign another key (lets say, I

>> sign Alice's key), will be both UIDs be displayed in the signatures, 
>> or just the one that was my primary UID at the moment when I signed 
>> Alice's key?
> 
> Neither.  Signatures only contain the key ID of the key making the 
> signature.  When displaying signatures, GPG shows the primary UID of 
> that key at display time.  In other words, if you sign a key with one 
> primary UID, then make another UID primary, the display will change to

> show the new primary.
> 
> There is, incidentally, a way of encoding which UID the signer "meant"
> the signature to be from.  It's part of the OpenPGP standard, but no 
> software that I know of actually uses it.
> 
> David
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