Sign key and export for each UID

Pete Stephenson pete at heypete.com
Mon Sep 16 22:20:45 CEST 2013


On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 9:45 PM, MFPA <expires2013 at ymail.com> wrote:
> On Monday 16 September 2013 at 7:57:04 PM, in
> <mid:52375480.7020606 at dougbarton.us>, Doug Barton wrote:
>> I have another philosophy that works for me because I
>> prefer not to sign uids that are not valid.
>
> What, in your opinion, makes a UID "not valid?"

I can't speak for Doug, but I consider UIDs corresponding to
no-longer-functioning email addresses to be invalid and won't sign
them as I have no idea if the keyholder is the actual owner of that
address.

-- 
Pete Stephenson



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