Key selection

[MFPA]

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On Saturday 27 December 2014 at 7:41:41 PM, in
<mid:549F0B75.1070203 at dougbarton.email>, Doug Barton wrote:



> If you have multiple keys that match a pattern (such as
> your e-mail address) then gpg is going to take its best
> guess as to which one you mean.


If several signing keys match the "From" email address, my email
client manages to get GnuPG to return a list so that I can choose
which key to use for signing. Conversely, if I sign a file from the
commandline using the --local-user option with a string that matches
several signing keys, I am not presented with this choice.

If several encryption keys match the "To" address of an email, there
is no such choice of keys offered by my MUA and GnuPG picks one to use
for encryption. GnuPG also picks the key itself when I encrypt from
the commandline and use a non-unique pattern.



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