adding uid to key

Thomas Schweikle tschweikle at gmail.com
Mon Feb 24 13:24:38 CET 2025


 Hi!

I'm having some problem adding an uid to a key. What I am doing:
1. list all keys
2. select one of the active keys
3. gpg --edit-key <key-id>
4. adduid
   answer the questions: name, mail6
5. type in keys secret

do 2 to 5 for the second key.

6. save

 Now "gpg --list-secret-keys" lists (shortened):
sec   ed25519 2020-11-18 [SC] [verfällt: 2026-12-31]
      565931F52CE768F643389BABA9CA236BDBEC9779
uid        [ ultimativ ] name <mail6>
uid        [ ultimativ ] name <mail4>
uid        [ ultimativ ] name <mail1>
uid        [ ultimativ ] name <mail2>
uid        [ ultimativ ] name <mail5>
uid        [ ultimativ ] name <mail3>
ssb   cv25519 2020-11-18 [E] [verfällt: 2026-12-31]
      97F6060D825C74CA8A7E49CFA0F506A815F9DDAD

sec   ed25519 2020-11-18 [SC] [verfällt: 2026-12-31]
      565931F52CE768F643389BABA9CA236BDBEC9779
uid        [ ultimativ ] name <mail4>
uid        [ ultimativ ] name <mail1>
uid        [ ultimativ ] name <mail2>
uid        [ ultimativ ] name <mail5>
uid        [ ultimativ ] name <mail3>

sec   ed25519 2020-11-18 [SC] [verfällt: 2026-12-31]
      565931F52CE768F643389BABA9CA236BDBEC9779
uid        [ ultimativ ] name <mail4>
uid        [ ultimativ ] name <mail1>
uid        [ ultimativ ] name <mail2>
uid        [ ultimativ ] name <mail5>
uid        [ ultimativ ] name <mail3>

sec   ed25519 2020-11-18 [SC] [verfällt: 2026-12-31]
      565931F52CE768F643389BABA9CA236BDBEC9779
uid        [ ultimativ ] name <mail4>
uid        [ ultimativ ] name <mail1>
uid        [ ultimativ ] name <mail2>
uid        [ ultimativ ] name <mail5>
uid        [ ultimativ ] name <mail3>

sec   brainpoolP512r1 2022-07-13 [SCA] [verfällt: 2026-12-31]
      ACDFB1AF82CF084B948ECB5D27AE2304B4974851
uid        [ ultimativ ] name <mail6>
uid        [ ultimativ ] name <mail1>
uid        [ ultimativ ] name <mail4>
uid        [ ultimativ ] name <mail5>
uid        [ ultimativ ] name <mail2>
uid        [ ultimativ ] name <mail3>
ssb   brainpoolP512r1 2022-07-13 [E] [verfällt: 2026-12-31]
      0A5D749D75F3D847CEC42CFF737D00DCF417C669

sec   brainpoolP512r1 2022-07-13 [SCA] [verfällt: 2026-12-31]
      ACDFB1AF82CF084B948ECB5D27AE2304B4974851
uid        [ ultimativ ] name <mail1>
uid        [ ultimativ ] name <mail4>
uid        [ ultimativ ] name <mail5>
uid        [ ultimativ ] name <mail2>
uid        [ ultimativ ] name <mail3>

The added "mail6" is only seen at two places. Is this ok?
Or should it show up within every block?

Kleopatra does not show the added "mail6" anywhere. Any ideas? Anything I
should do but forgot to do adding a new email address?

-- 
Thomas
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