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Quote from: Chris! on July 16, 2017, 08:00:27 AM

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I don't know how to use windows. If I understand your question, you want to add an email address to your gpg key? If that's the case, you're going to use gpg edit-key adduid. The docs:

https://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/manual/r899.html

I was in a rush to get it up and running and couldn't find a step-by-step guide on how to do it on Linux. I much prefer to use Linux mint.

It turned out it was an easy problem and I was just a newbie. Basically I send to email address [email protected] and check off the PGP key for [email protected]. I have no idea why I was making it so complicated!

On that note, does anyone know of a good guide that gives step-by-step instructions for Linux? Trying to figure out what to type in terminal is near impossible for me because I don't know what any of the commands mean.

This web pages give a step by step for adding an email address to a gpg identity:

https://www.katescomment.com/how-to-add-additional-email-addresses-to-your-gpg-identity/

The ssl cert is out of date on that site (as of right now) but the content is still correct.

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Quote from: tspacepilot on July 13, 2017, 03:11:44 PM

Quote from: Chris! on July 12, 2017, 07:13:25 PM

Ok, so anyway this is now a tech question: how do I send someone a PGP signed message on thunderbird with enigmail installed if I have a PGP signed message from a different email address?

I don't know how to use windows. If I understand your question, you want to add an email address to your gpg key? If that's the case, you're going to use gpg edit-key adduid. The docs:

https://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/manual/r899.html

I was in a rush to get it up and running and couldn't find a step-by-step guide on how to do it on Linux. I much prefer to use Linux mint.

It turned out it was an easy problem and I was just a newbie. Basically I send to email address [email protected] and check off the PGP key for [email protected]. I have no idea why I was making it so complicated!

On that note, does anyone know of a good guide that gives step-by-step instructions for Linux? Trying to figure out what to type in terminal is near impossible for me because I don't know what any of the commands mean.

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Quote from: Chris! on July 12, 2017, 07:13:25 PM

Ok, so anyway this is now a tech question: how do I send someone a PGP signed message on thunderbird with enigmail installed if I have a PGP signed message from a different email address?

I don't know how to use windows. If I understand your question, you want to add an email address to your gpg key? If that's the case, you're going to use gpg edit-key adduid. The docs:

https://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/manual/r899.html

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Quote from: Quickseller on July 12, 2017, 07:08:08 PM

It is trivial to change/add an email address to your GPG keys. There is zero verification required to add any email address to a GPG key.

You will probably want to see if you can independently verify the GPG key associated with a signature you are verifying before relying upon that signature.

Ok, here's the problem. I don't know how to do any of that. If it's trivial that's probably a good sign. But how do I independently verify their signature?

Omg I just realized something that makes me feel a LOT better. I found the listing on a random website, didn't trust it and went directly to their own website to see about the job. It was there and I applied.

Ok, so anyway this is now a tech question: how do I send someone a PGP signed message on thunderbird with enigmail installed if I have a PGP signed message from a different email address?

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It is trivial to change/add an email address to your GPG keys. There is zero verification required to add any email address to a GPG key.

You will probably want to see if you can independently verify the GPG key associated with a signature you are verifying before relying upon that signature.

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Figured it out. Thanks quickseller for the response.

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