Editing Public Key

[Lionel Elie Mamane]

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On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 07:08:24PM -0600, Mike Watson wrote:

> Is there a way to edit the public key to change the comments and
> e-mail address?

You can add a new UserID (name / e-mail / comment triple), and revoke
your signature on the old UserID:

gpg --edit-key the_KeyID
adduid
(anwser the questions)
revsig
(answer 'Y' on the signature on the old address. Example:
user ID: "Mike Watson <mikew@crucis.net>"
signed with your key 0E5844F at 2000-04-08
Create a revocation certificate for this signature? (y/N)
---answer Y
user ID: "Mike Watson <mikew@comcat.net>"
signed with your key 0E5844F at 2002-01-22
Create a revocation certificate for this signature? (y/N)
---answer N
)
save

You might also want to use a graphical front-end to do this...

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