choosing an encryption target from a User ID

Daniel Kahn Gillmor dkg at fifthhorseman.net
Tue Sep 22 23:06:41 CEST 2009


On 09/22/2009 04:57 PM, John W. Moore III wrote:
> Like GPG it utilizes the 1st encountered Key that matches the Send To:
> address & is valid.

this is not what gpg does.  gpg simply chooses the first key with a
matching user ID, whether or irrespective of the calculated validity of
the User ID in question.

	--dkg

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