On 09/23/2009 12:17 PM, Werner Koch wrote: > Please keep in mind that using a user ID is just to help the user in the > most common case. Any proper mail tool won't accept such a solution but > either presenr the user a list of matching keys and let him select a key > or auto select the key based on such information.
Has this been made this clear to collaborating MUA/plugin developers? I think the "auto select a key" step for MUAs or plugins is often implemented as "let gpg pick the key based on the user ID". I observed this exact behavior from enigmail, and it changed when i re-ordered my keys in my gpg keyring. You can see the discussion here: http://www.mozdev.org/pipermail/enigmail/2009-September/011491.html So it sounds like enigmail is relying on gpg at some level to do key selection among multiple User ID matches. It seemed to me that I could ask enigmail to improve their key selection process (fixing things just for enigmail users), or i could ask gpg to change the selection process (fixing things for enigmail users and all other gpg users). > Thus I consider this a wish for a future version. Feel free to add such > a request to the bug tracker. thanks, done: https://bugs.g10code.com/gnupg/issue1143 Regards, --dkg
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