Overwrite the existing key

[Werner Koch]

On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Sasa Danicic wrote:

> presume that user AAA has got BBB's public key in his keyring. In case
> that BBB decide to change its public key from some reason, what's
> happend when AAA want to import BBB's new/changed public key?

A new key will be appended to the keyring, a modified key will be
merged with the existing key.  A new key is a newly generated key
(i.e. one where the key parameters are different), a chnaged key
simply has new signatures on it.

Ciao,

  Werner
  

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