multiple keys vs multiple identities

[MFPA]

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Hi


On Friday 24 September 2010 at 3:00:40 PM, in
<mid:4C9CAF08.1030306 at fifthhorseman.net>, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:


Vjaceslavs Klimovs wrote:
>> It'd be nice if there was a signature notation that
>> specifies which UID(s) this signature would be valid
>> for.

> Unless i'm misunderstanding your suggestion, there is
> no need for such a notation -- OpenPGP certifications
> are made over a single User ID and its associated
> primary key.  If you certify someone's key and they
> have three User IDs, and you only can vouch for two of
> them, you should only certify those two.

I thought that gnupg and other openpgp implementations calculated
trust without regard to which user IDs had been certified.



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