On 1/4/2020 1:30 PM, between "Wilfred van Velzen : August Abolins":

 AA>> I am not sure I can tie a proper (non-padded) email address
 AA>> to the one I messed up with the program I am using.

 WvV> What program are you using?
 WvV> And you should be able to! ;)

Enigmail.  It integrates GnuPG into Thunderbird as an add-on so that it
looks and operates as if were part of Thunderbird.

Apparently, I haven't fully explored its full configuration options.
There are so many. I saw a setting on my other pc where I could "assign"
other identities to the existing ones.  Maybe that is the answer.


 AA>> If you were to create an email to me using my current key,
 AA>> would you have to remove the R_E_M_O_V_E part manually each
 AA>> and every time?

 WvV> I have no clue, I have never tried sending an encrypted
 WvV> email. ;)

Next to being able to sign messages in echomail/newsgroups, fully
encrypted messages only make sense in email - direct to a specific
individual.


 AA>> It's pretty neat that I can look up old friends and check
 AA>> the properties of the keys.

 WvV> Indeed. ;)

 WvV> But are those older keys still usable? I have two keys from
 WvV> 1993, I no longer remember the passwords for. :-( But they
 WvV> aren't on the keyservers afaik, so nobody will be tempted
 WvV> to use them. ;)

That's the beauty of pulling down the keys and checking their
properties.  The properties will reveal creation dates, expiry dates,
revocations,etc.  It would be relatively easy to just pick the most
recent date, and send a brief hello message with a CC: and see which
ones reach their target.

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