Email-only UIDs

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Wed Apr 8 21:25:00 CEST 2015


On Wed,  8 Apr 2015 17:50, jose.castillo at gmail.com said:

> share something that led me to this confusion initially. When I was
> considering an email-only UID, I ran up against the issue that in
> gnupg's default mode of operation, a name is required for a UID,

  $ gpg --dump-options | grep free
  --allow-freeform-uid

This options will help you.  With the next 2.1 release and if using the
keybox format (pubring.kbx) searching for mail addresses without angle
brackets will also work as expected.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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