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change name on key and sub-key
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s***@yahoo.co.uk
2008-01-23 20:35:52 UTC
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How to change the name on a key and sub-key?
Thomas J. Boschloo
2008-01-24 16:17:46 UTC
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***@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
| How to change the name on a key and sub-key?

Depends on the software you are using.

But basically you add your new name and then delete the old one.

I haven't kept up with modern keyservers, but with pgp version 2.x it
wasn't possible to remove things like names from a key that was already
on the servers.

I think you can revoke names now, but I can't be sure. Just use the GUI
and see what works :-) Make a backup of both your secret and public key
in advance (export) in case things go amiss.

Thomas
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