On Tue, 2021-11-16 at 18:20 +0200, Teemu Likonen wrote: > Am I seeing a starting trend here? Do some people think that it is > better practice to have only have email address as user id? What > might be their reason? Or maybe it's not a trend and doesn't mean > anything. I got curious anyway. Add your speculation. :-)
When selecting a key for either encryption or verification purposes, only the email address part is meaningful. "John Smith <jsm...@example.com>" and "John David Smith (work email) <jsm...@example.com>" are functionally equivalent. The "Real Name" and "Comment" portions of the userID are mere conventions and, if you have an address book, entirely redundant. It is reasonable therefore to take the view that the non-email portion of a userID is cruft at best (and an unnecessary leakage of personal information at worst). A
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