Problem: Several selfsig

trickyboy at leet.la trickyboy at leet.la
Mon Jun 22 12:47:46 CEST 2015


It’s the same key with 3 different userID. 


> On 21 Jun 2015, at 22:12, Schlacta, Christ <aarcane at aarcane.org> wrote:
> 
> I'm more interested how two different keys have the same keyid ABCD1234.. How'd you get that keyid?
> 
> On Jun 21, 2015 1:07 PM, <trickyboy at leet.la> wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> 
> I generated a GnuPG certificate but I see that I have two self-signatures for each of my userID:
> 
> gpg> check
> uid  John Doe <john.doe at domain1.blah>
> sig!3        ABCD1234 2015-06-18  [self-signature]
> sig!3        ABCD1234 2015-06-14  [self-signature]
> uid  John Doe <john.doe at domain2.blah>
> sig!3        ABCD1234 2015-06-18  [self-signature]
> sig!3        ABCD1234 2015-06-14  [self-signature]
> uid  John Doe <john.doe at domain3.blah>
> sig!3        ABCD1234 2015-06-18  [self-signature]
> sig!3        ABCD1234 2015-06-14  [self-signature]
> 
> Here is how I proceeded:
> I generated a key (which generated an encryption subkey automatically).
> I added 2 userID.
> I added a signature subkey. So I let only my 2 subkeys (so, E and S) on my laptop as recommended on a website I read.
> (I also added an authentification subkey because I’d like to test a ssh/gpg setting later).
> 
> So my questions are:
> Did I proceed correctly or did I miss a recommended step ?
> Why I have 2 self-sig on each of my userID and is it a problem ? And, if so, how to proceed to remove one of them ?
> I think that maybe I see two self-signature because I created two signature keys: The main key which is for signature and certification (SC), plus the signature subkey I added.
> 
> Thank you for your help,
> 
> Tboy.
> 
> 
> 
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