Setting Primary UID

[Werner Koch]

On Fri, 7 Apr 2000, Brian Galbraith wrote:

> I have recently added some UIDs to my keys, but unfortunately have been
> unable to Change the Primary UID used . I have read the manual, but have
> been unable to find anything which works.

There is not clear way to say what's the primary user ID is.  The most
logical one to me, is to say that latest one created is the primary
one.  However there are problems with that:  You way want to change
some attributes (like preferences or expiration time) and this way the
timestamp of the self-signature (which is the only way to tell you
when a UID has been created) changes, or you have a private and a
business user ID.  

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.


   Werner


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