On Wednesday 23 September 2009, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > 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'm pretty sure that this will break horribly as soon as the user ID contains non-ASCII characters (as does my user ID). For exactly this reason I made KMail use the key ID instead of the user ID about 7 years ago. Is enigmail really still using the user ID? Regards, Ingo
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