Documentation error: --allow-freeform-uid not needed?

[MFPA]

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Hi


On Friday 6 July 2012 at 8:05:55 PM, in <mid:3059210.PbFFF1CdVA at inno>,
Hauke Laging wrote:


> I just noticed that it is possible to create UIDs
> without an email address without giving the option
> --allow-freeform-uid.

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>  This seems not to be
> related to --expert (I tried with --options /dev/null)

I just found the same, using GnuPG v1.4.12 under Windows XP.

I was able to create a key with a string of letters for "real name"
and just hitting <enter> for the "email address" and "comment"
prompts. (On Windows, it seems to be "nul" rather than "null" but I
also tried --no-options, and I tried actually pointing to an empty
gpg-conf file just to be sure.)


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