one key/pair for multiple email accounts

[Kristian Fiskerstrand]

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On 07/08/2014 10:44 AM, The Fuzzy Whirlpool Thunderstorm wrote:
>> in practice, do users of gnupg find that having multiple email
>> account id's +added to one key/pair using that key/pair to sign
>> and/or encrypt emails & files +more efficient to manage?
>> 
>> 
>> i have mulitple email accounts and in the past had generated a 
>> key/pair for +each, each with its own unique passphrase. i'm
>> rethinking that approach.
>> 
>> curious how other uses in this situation manage their gnupg?
> 
> This depends on your situation. If you want to be identified as one
> single person for all mails, you are better use one key id and add
> each mail address to your primary key as additional identities. If
> you want to hide your real identity by having multiple email 
> addresses, you may create a separate identity key for each mail
> address. That's what I thought.

Wouldn't necessarily be to _hide_ anything either. I tend to use it as
a role-based approach, e.g. I have an own key for my work address
(that is barely used at all, but it _is_ available). The primary
reason for this is that I have that key located on the company
computer which is under the control of the IT department, not me, so
wouldn't want to use my own personal keys for that.


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