multiple user ID

[Ken Wahl]

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Davide Cavallari on 25/01/2002 at 18:53 opined thusly:

> What is the advantage of using several user ID for the same key?

So a public key can be associated with more than one email address or
pseudonym.

For instance you may run a RPM website where people download your RPM's.
You sign these RPM's with the same key that you sign your emails with.
One uid could be your email address and another uid could be 'Davide's
Hot RPM's' <rpms@davide.org>.  Maybe like me you just have multiple
email addresses and don't want a seperate key for each of them.

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Ken Wahl    ken@kenwahl.org     http://www.kenwahl.org/
PGP/GPG Key C225AA5A: http://www.kenwahl.org/pubkey.gpg
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