diff --git a/Doc/dist/dist.tex b/Doc/dist/dist.tex
index d6ddad8..fd38e4a 100644
--- a/Doc/dist/dist.tex
+++ b/Doc/dist/dist.tex
@@ -1754,8 +1754,21 @@
 distributions named on the command line for the invocation including
 the \command{upload} command are uploaded.
 
-The \command{upload} command uses the username and password stored in
-the file \file{\$HOME/.pypirc}, see section~\ref{pypirc}.
+The \command{upload} command uses the username, password, and repository
+URL from the \file{\$HOME/.pypirc} file (see section~\ref{pypirc} for
+more on this file).
+
+You can use the \programopt{--sign} option to tell \command{upload} to
+sign each uploaded file using GPG (GNU Privacy Guard).  The 
+\program{gpg} program must be available for execution on the system
+\envvar{PATH}.  You can also specify which key to use for signing
+using the \programopt{--identity=\var{name}} option.
+
+Other \command{upload} options include 
+\programopt{--repository=\var{url}} (which lets you override the
+repository setting from \file{\$HOME/.pypirc}), and
+\programopt{--show-response} (which displays the full response text
+from the PyPI server for help in debugging upload problems).
 
 \chapter{Examples}
 \label{examples}
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/command/upload.py b/Lib/distutils/command/upload.py
index 62767a3..6f4ce81 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/command/upload.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/command/upload.py
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
          'display full response text from server'),
         ('sign', 's',
          'sign files to upload using gpg'),
+        ('identity=', 'i', 'GPG identity used to sign files'),
         ]
     boolean_options = ['show-response', 'sign']
 
@@ -38,8 +39,13 @@
         self.repository = ''
         self.show_response = 0
         self.sign = False
+        self.identity = None
 
     def finalize_options(self):
+        if self.identity and not self.sign:
+            raise DistutilsOptionError(
+                "Must use --sign for --identity to have meaning"
+            )
         if os.environ.has_key('HOME'):
             rc = os.path.join(os.environ['HOME'], '.pypirc')
             if os.path.exists(rc):
@@ -67,7 +73,10 @@
     def upload_file(self, command, pyversion, filename):
         # Sign if requested
         if self.sign:
-            spawn(("gpg", "--detach-sign", "-a", filename),
+            gpg_args = ["gpg", "--detach-sign", "-a", filename]
+            if self.identity:
+                gpg_args[2:2] = ["--local-user", self.identity]
+            spawn(gpg_args,
                   dry_run=self.dry_run)
 
         # Fill in the data - send all the meta-data in case we need to