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diff --git a/sq-guide.md b/sq-guide.md index e954b71..2069c86 100644 --- a/sq-guide.md +++ b/sq-guide.md @@ -763,11 +763,16 @@ as Facebook, Twitter, Mastodon, or GitHub; publish a photo of it on a photo sharing site; print it on business cards. We'll cover more options later in the chapter on managing keys in a community. -A caveat: a certificate does contain all the user ids on your key, so -if any of those is not public information you may want to remove them -from your key before extracting the certificate. You may want to have -an entirely separate key for that. User ids are tied to the primary -key, subkeys inherit them from their primary. +User ids are tied to the primary key, subkeys inherit them from their +primary. + +A certificate should only contain User IDs for identities that you +want linked together. If you want to compartmentalize your online +identities, then you should use a separate certificate for each set of +pseudonyms, which should be separate from the others. For instance, +you might have one certificate for your activities as an activist, and +another for your normal, day-to-day activities. + # Using digital signatures |