Signing with more than one secret key available

[Anthony E. Greene]

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On 29-Jul-2002/17:36 +0300, Charly Avital <shavital@netbox.com> wrote:
>At 8:24 AM -0500 7/29/02, andy_man@popmail.com wrote:
>>If I use a different keypair for each recipient, how can I have the
>>appropriate secret key used *automatically* in order to sign the message?
>>Shouldn't the secret key include an (optional) email string for
>>"recipient" as well, not just my own address? So that the correct key
>>could be chosen automatically when using e.g. Enigmail/Mozilla.
>>Or is it simply silly to use different keypairs?
>
>You do not use, for encryption to each recipient, a different keypair, but
>only a public key pertaining to each recipient.

He is saying that he does (or plans to) use a separate key pair for each
recipient.

I don't think this case is common enough to warrant changing the OpenPGP
key format specification to accomodate it.

Tony
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