Ugly way to change the primary UID

Andrew McDonald andrew@mcdonald.org.uk
Wed May 2 09:42:01 2001


Nicholas Cole said:

>I found that simply deleting the self-sig on the primary UID and
>resigning also works; the disadvantage of both methods is surely that it
>might make an alert user wonder if your key has been tampered with since
>creation.
I tried this, but found that a 'normal' signature was created rather than a self signature. e.g. things like cipher algorithm preferences were missing. Andrew -- Posted from somewhere on planet Earth.