Setting Primary UID

L. Sassaman rabbi@quickie.net
Fri, 7 Apr 2000 12:19:58 -0700 (PDT)


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On Fri, 7 Apr 2000, Werner Koch wrote:


> OpenPGP has a primary key flag, but ist is allowed to put it on more
> than one user ID. Bottom line is that there is no clear semantic
> defined in (at least) gpg.
It seems to me that the most sensible way to do this would be to take the key with the most recent primary key flag sub-signature bit set, and treat that as primary. That solves all the problems associated with this. - --Len. __ L. Sassaman System Administrator | "All of the chaos Technology Consultant | Makes perfect sense..." icq.. 10735603 | pgp.. finger://ns.quickie.net/rabbi | --Joe Diffie -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjjuNO0ACgkQPYrxsgmsCmpdYQCg79NUxlUJc6FOU1lwwkDILfM5 xP8An0ZfjdeqYAcf6cwbA+XfxYe7tkcc =TxSm -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----