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[David Shaw]

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On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 03:04:37PM -0800, David Ellement wrote:
> I haven't been able to find an explanation for this in the gpg man
> page or in the "The GNU Privacy Handbook".  When editing my public
> key, "list" shows my user IDs, with a "." next to one:
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>     pub  1024D/75B33A09  created: 1998-07-19 [...]
>     sub  2048g/AB4EB5BF  created: 1998-07-19 [...]
>     (1)  David M. Ellement <ellement@sdd.hp.com>
>     (2)  David M. Ellement <david_ellement@hp.com>
>     (3). David M. Ellement <david.ellement@home.com>
>     (4)  [revoked] David M. Ellement <dellemen@mill.net>
>=20
> User ID (3) appears as the ID for my signature, so I suppose there's
> a connection with the "." in the listing.  What does it mean?  How
> do I associate it with one of the other user IDs?

As you guessed, the "." means "this is the primary ID".

The current GnuPG calculates it based on the most recently signed ID
(which usually means the most recently created ID).

The upcoming GnuPG 1.0.7 has the "primary" command to make any ID you
like the primary one.

David

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