Re: importing PGP keys

[Jens Lechtenboerger <jens.lechtenboerger@fsfe.org>]

On 2015-01-21, Eric Abrahamsen wrote:

> Russ Allbery <eagle@eyrie.org> writes:
>
>> Greg Troxel <gdt@lexort.com> writes:
>>
>>> 1 and 3 are certainly useful code to share, but don't seem super tricky.
>>> I am curious what people are doing for 2.  bbdb?

I’m using jl-encrypt ;)
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/DefaultEncrypt

> In my case, the problem was that the person just sent me the raw public
> key block;

I’m surprised that this is possible.  How, actually?
You might want to warn him/her not to do this.

Without uid, you must remember the key fingerprint if you want to
use the key.  This does not appear to be human friendly.  Moreover,
as any link between key and e-mail address is missing, e-mail
software cannot offer automatic encryption.

> I was sure that the gpg key management interface would provide some way
> of manually adding an email address to someone else's public key, but
> I'm not finding it...

An owner of the secret key can use the gpg command adduid.

You must not be able to add uids to other people’s keys.  Otherwise,
you could redirect e-mails encrypted to them.

Best wishes
Jens