Setting default UID

[John Goerzen]

Where does one find this RFC2440bis2?  I've never heard of such a
naming scheme for RFCs...

-- John

Len Sassaman <rabbi@quickie.net> writes:

> On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Janusz A. Urbanowicz wrote:
>=20
>> John Goerzen wrote/napisa=B3[a]/schrieb:
>> > I recently added a new UID to my public key but now GPG wants it to be
>> > the default for everything.  I want one of my existing UIDs to be the
>> > default, but I cannot find any documentation ANYWHERE on how to find
>> > this.  With gpg --edit, gpg seems to put a dot next to the default
>> > uid, but there is not even any mention of this in the manual.  Ideas?
>>
>> There is NO default uid in OpenPGP. The ID that is using in determining =
key
>> structure is the numerical UID which is the same for all the textual UID=
s.
>> The 'default' textual UID is the last one added (determined by time of
>> self-signing) and it is displayed in key revieving for convenience only.
>> Please note that after importing ypur key, someone may have another text=
ual
>> UID displayed at your key as 'default'.
>>
>> This should go to FAQ.
>=20
> The above is wrong. See RFC2440bis02:5.2.3.19.
>=20
>=20

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