Anthony Ventimiglia anthony@ventimiglia.org writes:
Well the way you worded it made it seem like the UID could not change, If we're planning on writing a text for folks who don't really know gpg/pgp, we have to keep that in mind.
It was worded poorly (it was actually wrong) and thank you for clarifying it.
4) You'll need to specify the user id. The user id should represent who uses this key. You'll need to provide a name, an email address and a coment. You can later add ather user ids if need be.
However, I don't really want that text to be an introduction to gpg, all I was hoping to accomplish was to give enough info so that common-lisp.net developers could get a public key and know, a bit, about what they were doing instead of just providing a list of commands to run. I don't really think that is a worthy goal, gpg has excellent documentation in multiple languages and we shauld just point to that.
As for as generating keys here's the relevant section of the gnu privacy handbook:
http://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/manual.html#AEN26