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Re: Changing PGP key

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From: Richard Clayton
Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2000 11:18
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In article <UDGdR3DhqTu5Ewe0@pigsonthewing.demon.co.uk>, Andy Mabbett
<andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk> writes

>As you can see, this article is signed by me, as "andy@pigsonthewing.dem
>onco.uk", 

actually, I cannot see that especially simply...

I can see that the article was signed by key ID BD6E71B8

... having now fetched the only key I can readily locate with that ID I
find that I now have the key used to sign the message. I can then see
that the key has an associated email address which is indeed
andy@pigsonthewing.demon.co.uk

... and I still have no idea who "me" is or who signed the message

>but sent as "andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk"; 

that I can see

>how can I change my
>PGP key to the latter, 

RTFM .. "Add", "Name" is what you need.

>or do I need to delete it and create a new one.

not necessarily

>If so, will I then need to have it re-signed by the people who signed
>this one?

each email address has its own set of signatures. However, if you have a
highly signed key you can use that to sign other things and people may
choose to be impressed by this.

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From: Richard Clayton <richard@turnpike.com>
Newsgroups: demon.security
Subject: Re: Changing PGP key
Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2000 12:18:22 +0100
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