key generation: email-address necessary?

[Laurent Jumet]

Hello Martin !

Martin Bretschneider <mailing-lists-mmvi at bretschneidernet.de> wrote:

> I want to recreate my GnuPG keys. My question is if I can omit the email
> address? Since I do not want my email addresses to appear on the
> keyservers because of spammers and so on. I only want to put my name and
> maybe my toplevel domain in the comment field.
> Is the some kind of problem with this behavoir? Can email clients find
> out what key to use if there is no known email address?
> What do you think?

    You can use whatever you want to identify your key.
    But in some cases, mail programs expect to find your e-mail.

-- 
Laurent Jumet
      KeyID: 0xCFAF704C