From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Greg A. Woods" Subject: Re: PATCH: Less fragile lookup of gpg key Date: Sun, 02 May 2010 20:59:34 -0400 Organization: Planix, Inc. Message-ID: References: <4BDC45EB.8090305@grant-olson.net> <4BDC561B.4030307@gmail.com> <7vhbmr5ym4.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <4BDC63FB.7060202@grant-olson.net> <7v7hnn4cun.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Reply-To: The Git Mailing List Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="pgp-sign-Multipart_Sun_May__2_20:59:34_2010-1"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: The Git Mailing List X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon May 03 02:59:49 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O8k0i-0003SA-41 for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Mon, 03 May 2010 02:59:48 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754094Ab0ECA7m (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 May 2010 20:59:42 -0400 Received: from mail.weird.com ([204.92.254.2]:53487 "EHLO most.weird.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753550Ab0ECA7l (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 May 2010 20:59:41 -0400 Received: from once.weird.com ([204.92.254.13] port=58221) by most.weird.com([204.92.254.2] port=25) via TCP with esmtp (2998 bytes) (sender: ) (ident using rfc1413) id for ; Sun, 2 May 2010 20:59:39 -0400 (EDT) (Smail-3.2.0.122-Pre 2005-Nov-17 #1 built 2009-Feb-3) In-Reply-To: <7v7hnn4cun.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.15.9 (Almost Unreal) SEMI/1.14.6 (Maruoka) FLIM/1.14.9 (=?ISO-8859-4?Q?Goj=F2?=) APEL/10.7 Emacs/22.3 (i386--netbsdelf) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI) X-Face: ;j3Eth2XV8h1Yfu*uL{<:dQ$#E[DB0gemGZJ"J#4fH*][ lz;@-iwMv_u\6uIEKR0KY"=MzoQH#CrqBN`nG_5B@rrM8,f~Gr&h5a\= X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: --pgp-sign-Multipart_Sun_May__2_20:59:34_2010-1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable At Sat, 01 May 2010 12:54:24 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrot= e: Subject: Re: PATCH: Less fragile lookup of gpg key >=20 > If I have two keys like these: >=20 > Junio C Hamano > Junio Hamano I'm not an expert on PGP internals or such, but I think that's a really bad thing to do. I'm surprised you were able to get gpg to do it in the first place. I would have hoped it wouldn't allow it. As far as I can tell it's _not_ compatible with other implementations of PGP. PGP keys normally are searched by the e-mail portion only. All the other stuff (comments and the display name, etc.) is for decoration only. This is just as it is in e-mail routing too of course. You can of course have more than one e-mail address per key, but you should NEVER have more than one key per e-mail. I.e. it's less reliable in the first place to have two different keys which can be found using the same e-mail address. --=20 Greg A. Woods Planix, Inc. +1 416 218 0099 http://www.planix.com/ --pgp-sign-Multipart_Sun_May__2_20:59:34_2010-1 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (NetBSD) iD8DBQBL3h/2Zn1xt3i/9H8RAgd3AKCp8j13zK7+Zd7+g5qQqoKg5rM2qgCgoPsE fH+AjszIY9R6gCwMzNQawqM= =iIUw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --pgp-sign-Multipart_Sun_May__2_20:59:34_2010-1--