Multiple GPG public keys with one private keys

MFPA 2014-667rhzu3dc-lists-groups at riseup.net
Thu Aug 27 21:08:24 CEST 2015


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Hi


On Thursday 27 August 2015 at 7:02:28 AM, in
<mid:CAGfiMvD3g8-9BcVX_ez-1G1L-2K8eNNHUz6ttHQH7TYpEBrm+g at mail.gmail.com>,
Divya Vyas wrote:


> I am looking at generating multiple public keys with
> one private keys.

How would you go about that? The public and private key are generated
at the same time and the pair are mathematically related.

If a private key could have multiple public keys, a signature made
with that private key would be ambiguous.



> As I have multiple identities. I dont
> want to generate separate keypair.

You could add multiple User-IDs to a single key-pair.


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