On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 04:21:32PM -0500, Alex Mauer wrote: > The UID format is also problematic IMO. GPG (OpenPGP?) strongly > "wants" to have a Name and an email address for each UID. I think > that this puts emphasis in a bad place, leading people to be signing > the fact that e.g. "Alex Mauer belongs with [EMAIL PROTECTED]", > rather than "Alex Mauer belongs with key 0x51192ff2" and > "[EMAIL PROTECTED] belongs with key 0x51192ff2". The photo UID > type fits much better, being a statement that "this is a photo of > the person who uses 0x51192ff2".
I don't agree with this. The user ID system in all OpenPGP products gives a regular UTF-8 string. Signatures simply bind that string to the primary key. The system says exactly "Alex Mauer belongs with key 0x51192ff2" and "[EMAIL PROTECTED] belongs with key 0x51192ff2". You cannot sign a user ID without binding it to a key. David _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
