creating PGP key should warn about comment field
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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seahorse (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: seahorse
When creating a new PGP key with seahorse, it displays a tantalizing "comment" field without warning newbies that this will become part of their encryption string.
Steps:
1) Open seahorse
2) File -> New
3) Select "PGP Key"
4) Enter Name, email address, /and comment/
5) Finish rest of steps
What happens? I get a key string like "David Tombs (my stupid comment) <email address hidden>", where everyone will see my stupid comment.
What should happen: Seahorse should tactfully warn the user like GPG does:
You need a user ID to identify your key; the software constructs the user ID
from the Real Name, Comment and Email Address in this form:
"Heinrich Heine (Der Dichter) <email address hidden>"
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Mar 21 23:01:23 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelMo
Package: seahorse 2.28.1-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSign
SourcePackage: seahorse
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-20-generic x86_64
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.