Consider a feature request?

David Shaw dshaw@jabberwocky.com
Thu May 22 14:36:02 2003


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On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 09:59:54PM +0000, Dick Gevers wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> The separate discussion on keystorage in an SQL database made me think
> of the possibility to add a bit of room for internal notes on every key in
> the local public keyring (internal meaning not exportable) which
> should be searchable via the existing gpg routines.
> 
> For example I might have a lot of people called John, Johnny, Johnson,
> Johnsson  etc. on my pubring and typing ?gpg --list-key john? could turn
> into an uncomfortably long list. But if I could add a note of ?cousin?
> in the notespace, it would, ideally, give only one entry for 
> ?gpg --list-key cousin?. (Unless I had more noted cousins than *john* in
> my pubring.

Put in your config file:

    group cousins = 0xABCDABCD 0x12345678 0xDEADBEEF

Then encrypting to "cousins" encrypts to the specified keyids.  It
doesn't work for --list-keys: only --recipient (-r).

David
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