drduh / YubiKey-Guide

Guide to using YubiKey for GnuPG and SSH
http://drduh.github.io/YubiKey-Guide/
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Missing section for adding uids #445

Open angelacastaneda opened 5 months ago

angelacastaneda commented 5 months ago

Love this guide and having so much value out of my yubikey.

I followed it for myself back in fall when things weren't so automated, and I just helped my friend set up his key today, and while it is nice to be able to copy-paste more commands, one thing that was very useful with the guide then was a pit stop during key generation to run adduid for more emails and names.

I helped him add the extra email out of script when editing the Certify key, but he would not have figured it out without me being there to help.

drduh commented 5 months ago

Thank you for the feedback @angelacastaneda

My impression is the use of additional identities is quite rare for the purposes of this guide. Would you mind sharing more about your context/use case? And how we could make this pit stop more prominent and helpful for users such as your friend?

angelacastaneda commented 5 months ago

I'm something of a multicultural guy, so I have different email addresses depending on the language. I also have a leet, hacker email too that I use for git commits, mailing lists, open source stuff in general to separate from the normal, personal email address.

see key here -> FB38 5581 F9E8 58F3 99DE 8DFE 099F 4FAF E6D2 E988

That last use-case was the one that was relevant to my friend and I think a lot of people that wanna do the effort of encrypting with a yubikey but don't wanna have to buy a separate one for another email they might want to use.