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Mathias Körber

24 Nov, 2012 08:15 AM

I am using GNUPG Keychain Access on Mountain Lion
and am trying to sign keys.

The popup offers my available private keys in the dropdown only by the
email address/comment text,
but since I have several keys with the same email address, it is
impossible to tell which is which.

Should that not also show the keyID to make it possible to properly
identify which key is to be used?

Is there a preference setting for that?

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1. Support Staff 1 Posted by Luke Le on 25 Nov, 2012 08:11 PM

   

   Hi Mathias,

   for most users it will probably not be easier to distinguish their keys by key id, but we might add it as a preference in the future. Currently it's not possible unfortunately.

   Out of curiosity, what's the reason you have so many secret keys for the same email address?

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2. 2 Posted by Mathias Koerber on 26 Nov, 2012 01:44 AM

   

   -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
   Hash: SHA1

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3. Support Staff 3 Posted by Steve on 02 Dec, 2012 10:40 AM

   

   Mathias, I think, something went wrong with your reply. Could you re-send it?

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4. Support Staff 4 Posted by Steve on 20 Jan, 2013 07:48 PM

   

   No further user feedback. Closing.

   @Mathias: Should your problem persist, feel free to re-open this discussion any time.

   All the best,
   steve

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5. Steve closed this discussion on 20 Jan, 2013 07:48 PM.