comments on uid

freejack at is-not-my.name freejack at is-not-my.name
Sat Mar 17 01:11:39 CET 2012


> The OP was maybe referring to the comment in UIDs of the form
> 
> Name (Comment) <email address>.

Right that's what I meant.


> The comment can only be added when creating the UID. If you wish to
> add, remove or edit you can create a new UID and set it as primary. If
> the key has not been shared, you can delete the old UIDs, but if it is
> already on the keyservers the copies there cannot have bits removed.

Thanks for the info. Is there some reason why we can't edit the UID? I
realize it doesn't help if the key is on a server but this key is not.



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