key generation: email-address necessary?

[Laurent Jumet]

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Hello Martin !

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

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

> that was my expectation as well. But what do the email clients do then?
> Do they say "no key available" or do the look for the name? What are
> your experiences?

    They can call another key with a similar name. :-)

    It's not easy to answer that question, as it depends on your own system.
    When you read a signed message, GPG provides a way to call automatically 
the sender's public key on your designed servers, when it doesn't find it in 
your PubRing; it goes on the Net, retrieves the key, incorporates it in your 
KeyRing and than verifyes the signature on the message. This process can abort 
if ID's doesn't match.

- -- 
Laurent Jumet
      KeyID: 0xCFAF704C
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