creating PGP key should warn about comment field

Bug #543886 reported by David Tombs
10
This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
seahorse (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
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
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: seahorse 2.28.1-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-20.58-generic
SourcePackage: seahorse
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-20-generic x86_64

Revision history for this message
David Tombs (dgtombs) wrote :
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in seahorse (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
To post a comment you must log in.
This report contains Public information  
Everyone can see this information.

Other bug subscribers

Remote bug watches

Bug watches keep track of this bug in other bug trackers.