Can I create domain keys?

Foo Bar foobar3001 at yahoo.com
Fri Aug 16 05:25:18 CEST 2013


Hello!

Sorry, I had not read this response yet when I wrote my previous email.

Obviously, here is the answer on how to create a free-form UID for the key.

Thank you!




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> From: MFPA <expires2013 at ymail.com>
> To: Foo Bar on GnuPG-Users <gnupg-users at gnupg.org>
> Cc: Foo Bar <foobar3001 at yahoo.com>
> Sent: Friday, 16 August 2013 7:57 AM
> Subject: Re: Can I create domain keys?
> 
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> Hi
> 
> 
> On Wednesday 14 August 2013 at 11:56:10 PM, in
> <mid:1376520970.16178.YahooMailNeo at web163905.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>, Foo
> Bar wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>>  I have tried to enter a "wildcard email" when gpg asked
>>  me for the email address during key generation. I tried
>>  "example.com", "@example.com" and 
> "*@example.com", but
>>  all of them were rejected with 'Not a valid email
>>  address'. Is there a special syntax I should use?
> 
> gpg --allow-freeform-uid --gen-key
> 
> 
> 
>>  I think the point you just made is the relevant one:
>>  Even if I would be able to create a key with a
>>  "wildcard email" associated with it, would the email
>>  client plugins, such as Enigmail, be able to deal with
>>  it?
> 
> As Doug has already said, not by default. Some email clients or
> plugins (such as Thunderbird/Enigmail) allow you to define which key
> to use when encrypting to a particular email address, others (such as
> The Bat!) do not.
> 
> A user who cannot configure their email software in this way could
> instead define group lines in their gpg.conf file along the lines of
> 
>      group <foo at example.com> = <@example.com>
> or
>      group <foo at example.com> = <bar at example.com>
> or
>      group <foo at example.com> = <name at mydomain.test>
> or
>      group <foo at example.com> = 0xDECAFBAD
> 
> 
> - --
> Best regards
> 
> MFPA                    mailto:expires2013 at ymail.com
> 
> Dreams come true on this side of the Rainbow too!
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