GPG weirdnesses

[David Shaw]

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On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 04:25:12PM +0200, Martin F Krafft wrote:

> anyway, the other day i finally added another UID with my work email
> addy:
>=20
> pub  1024D/330C4A75  created: 2001-06-20 expires: 2002-06-20 trust: f/u
> sub  2048g/D99FEE8D  created: 2001-06-20 expires: 2002-06-20
> (1)  Martin F. Krafft <madduck@madduck.net>
> (2). Martin F. Krafft (AERAsec GmbH) <mkrafft@aerasec.de>
>=20
> well, notice the '.' after the (2) on the second UID line? that's
> what's annoying me? because now, this UID seems to be the default.

Yep.  GnuPG doesn't know which UID you want to be the primary one, and
so picks the most recent UID.  In most cases, this is the right
decision (say, if the user changed their email address and so added a
new UID).

The next version of GnuPG has the ability to set the "primary user id"
flag in whatever UID you want to be the primary one.

David

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