Problem creating keys with GPG

[Alan Dayley]

Um... DOH!

It wants my real name.  Period.  Then it will ask for the comment.  Then it 
will ask for the email address.  I thought I should enter it all at once!

Move along.  Nothing to see here.

Alan

On Thursday 26 September 2002 08:38 pm, Mike Starke wrote:
> Less than and greater than signs.
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 08:10:45PM -0700, Alan Dayley wrote:
>  All this talk about signing has spurred me to set it up on my email.  I am
>  having a problem however.
>
>  I am using gpg (GnuPG) 1.0.6.  As instructed by the KMail help file, I am
>  running the command "gpg --gen-key" on the command line to create my keys.
>  I have gone down through the list of questions until it asks for my "Real
> name" Here is what happened:
>
>  <paste from console>
>  You need a User-ID to identify your key; the software constructs the user
> id from Real Name, Comment and Email Address in this form:
>      "Heinrich Heine (Der Dichter) <heinrichh@duesseldorf.de>"
>
>  Real name: Alan Dayley <alandd@consultpros.com>
>  Invalid character in name
>  Real name: Alan Dayley <alandd@consultpros.com>
>  Invalid character in name
>  Real name: Alan Dayley (Alan) <alandd@consultpros.com>
>  Invalid character in name
>  Real name: "Alan Dayley <alandd@consultpros.com>"
>  Invalid character in name
>  Real name:
>  </paste from console>
>
>  So here I sit wondering what character is invalid in the 4 attempts above
> and how do I proceed from here.  Any hints?
>
>  Alan
>
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