Changing the email address of a key

[Peter Lebbing]

On 28/08/12 21:54, Richi Lists wrote:
> Will this also write also to the smart-card or are the changes only in
> the local keyring?

UIDs are not stored on the smartcard, so it does not matter.

> I'm a bit hesitant because the full disk encryption on my netbook works
> also with the same key, and I don't want to reinstall the whole thing.

Understandable. If I understand correctly, you used GnuPG to encrypt the file
that unlocks your netbook? In that case, the *uid commands should be safe,
because they do not influence decryption of files. To be on the safe side, keep
a copy of your key as it is now, and after you changed the e-mail address, try
to decrypt some file. If that works, it should also decrypt the file that
unlocks your netbook.

It is wise to keep a copy of your key as it is now around just in case, anyway.
If you do something wrong, you can take the backup and start over.

Peter.

-- 
I use the GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG) in combination with Enigmail.
You can send me encrypted mail if you want some privacy.
My key is available at http://wwwhome.cs.utwente.nl/~lebbing/pubkey.txt