Setting default UID

[Len Sassaman]

On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Janusz A. Urbanowicz wrote:

> John Goerzen wrote/napisa=B3[a]/schrieb:
> > I recently added a new UID to my public key but now GPG wants it to be
> > the default for everything.  I want one of my existing UIDs to be the
> > default, but I cannot find any documentation ANYWHERE on how to find
> > this.  With gpg --edit, gpg seems to put a dot next to the default
> > uid, but there is not even any mention of this in the manual.  Ideas?
>
> There is NO default uid in OpenPGP. The ID that is using in determining k=
ey
> structure is the numerical UID which is the same for all the textual UIDs=
=2E
> The 'default' textual UID is the last one added (determined by time of
> self-signing) and it is displayed in key revieving for convenience only.
> Please note that after importing ypur key, someone may have another textu=
al
> UID displayed at your key as 'default'.
>
> This should go to FAQ.

The above is wrong. See RFC2440bis02:5.2.3.19.