setting primary UID of other's keys and allowing direct UID subaddressing

MFPA expires2012 at rocketmail.com
Sat Nov 17 00:27:43 CET 2012


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Hi


On Friday 16 November 2012 at 5:02:54 AM, in
<mid:2554028.aj5erzppO9 at inno>, Hauke Laging wrote:



> I see absolutely no reason why the key owner should
> force the decision which UID is shown on the key user

Doesn't GnuPG list them all? Or did you mean in a GUI key manager?



> I admit I was too
> lazy to check but I doubt that the email clients use
> the email address for key selection.

At least one email client does: The Bat! passes the email address in
angle brackets to GnuPG for key selection. If more than one key
matches, you get a choice. And if the email in the UID is not
surrounded by angle brackets, it does not match.


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Best regards

MFPA                    mailto:expires2012 at rocketmail.com

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