key generation: email-address necessary?

[MFPA]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA512

Hi Martin


On Saturday 27 February 2010 at 10:50:13 AM, you wrote:



> 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?

I use The Bat! which matches on email address only. If there is more
than one match, earlier versions of The Bat! pick one to use whilst
later versions allow the user to choose. If there is no match, the
encryption fails. This can be overcome by creating a group in
gpg.conf, named as the email address and containing the key ID for
that email address.


- --
Best regards

MFPA                    mailto:expires2010 at ymail.com

Change is inevitable except from a vending machine
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----

iQCVAwUBS4mF6KipC46tDG5pAQrg3wQAq7tFOvu5NpAhVtrVIyfUjmwN1Sa6Cz8l
IMQMf/3mDlyih7iQ92mU6+JXT4HzDx3YHgWsfxgqPJio+qha1oVxiPIovFH5BD+w
rBbNDXzTe+UXEQa7Xn0rzQjCO2oHM5g4O/cwVoP12Qpi22sn0v9WSKf/KrA5sb7Z
U0tTBK1YJQo=
=yq0L
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----