On Sep 22, 2009, at 6:54 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
Can you give me an example of a script
that has this behavior "baked in" to the point where adopting a better
heuristic would break it?
It doesn't work that way. The default is "the first valid key". It's
been that way in the PGP world since before GPG as a product was
written. If you want to propose a specific alternative, I'm ready to
listen, but I'm not going to defend the default behavior of 15+ years.
Also, i believe this behavior is *only* relevant in situations where
the
user asks gpg to encrypt something to a name or User ID. Is that
right?
or are there other circumstances in gpg where the "choose the first
matching User ID" heuristic is used?
It's used everywhere user IDs are referenced in the product. --list-
keys. --edit-key, --sign-key, etc, etc.
David
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