PGP : what to do when a user ID has multiple RSA keys

[Chris McAuliffe]

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[To: savron at world-net.sct.fr]
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[Subject: Re: PGP : what to do when a user ID has multiple RSA keys ]
[In-reply-to: Your message of Mon, 11 Mar 96 07:25:59 GMT.]
             <199603110740.IAA06248 at storm.certix.fr> 

>My DOS version of PGP 2.6.2 came with a built in PUBRING.PGP 
>containing two keys ( 1024 and 512 size ) with the same user ID .
>For testing  purposes I wanted to encrypt a message with the 512 
>length key , but only the 1024 size key could be used .

>How can I select the right key , apart from making a clone 
>PUBRING.PGP with only the key I want to use ?

You can specify by the keyid. Do a pgp -kvv:

	$ pgp -kvv cmca at alpha.c2.org
	Type bits/keyID    Date       User ID
	pub  1024/6C87FFA5 1996/02/06 Chris McAuliffe <cmca at alpha.c2.org>
	1 matching key found.

Now do the encryption
	$ pgp -e 0x6C87FFA5 file

Note the '0x' prefix on the keyid

Chris McAuliffe <cmca at alpha.c2.org> (No, not that one.)

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