Enigmail/GPG with two email accounts
Here's the problem. I have two email accounts. I want to access both from home and one from work and use Mozilla/Enigmail with both. Can I use the same private/secret key from both home and work on one account AND still use a different private/secret key on the other? Can I even use different secret keys for different accounts? With all this [OT] GPG stuff lately, someone must know the answer ;-) -- JDL - May the source be with you.
On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, John just had to get this off his chest:
Here's the problem. I have two email accounts. I want to access both from home and one from work and use Mozilla/Enigmail with both. Can I use the same private/secret key from both home and work on one account AND still use a different private/secret key on the other?
Can I even use different secret keys for different accounts?
With all this [OT] GPG stuff lately, someone must know the answer ;-)
You can generate and use any number of keys, or use AKAs in one keypair. It is not very advisable to use multiple keypairs though, it makes administration quickly becoming a nightmare, and it doesn't make good appearance to suddenly change a signature (just like you wouldn't change your written signature). Therefor always generate a revokation key, so that you can revoke a signature when you no longer use it. Theo -- Theo v. Werkhoven Registered Linux user# 99872 http://counter.li.org ICBM 52 13 27N , 4 29 45E. SuSE 8.0 x86 Kernel k_Athlon 2.4.19-4GB See headers for PGP/GPG info.
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