Setting default UID

[Len Sassaman]

www.ietf.org.

It's the current internet draft.

(The primary user id is in 2440 as well, but it might be in a slightly
different subsection.)

On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, John Goerzen wrote:

> Where does one find this RFC2440bis2?  I've never heard of such a
> naming scheme for RFCs...
>
> -- John
>
> Len Sassaman <rabbi@quickie.net> writes:
>
> > 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 th=
e
> >> > 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 determinin=
g key
> >> structure is the numerical UID which is the same for all the textual U=
IDs.
> >> The 'default' textual UID is the last one added (determined by time of
> >> self-signing) and it is displayed in key revieving for convenience onl=
y.
> >> Please note that after importing ypur key, someone may have another te=
xtual
> >> UID displayed at your key as 'default'.
> >>
> >> This should go to FAQ.
> >
> > The above is wrong. See RFC2440bis02:5.2.3.19.
> >
> >
>
> --
> John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>    GPG: 0x8A1D9A1F    www.complete.o=
rg
>

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Len Sassaman

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