Re: primary UID change

[stappers@stappers.nl (Geert Stappers)]

On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 05:44:42PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Geert Stappers:
> 
> >> Why not?  2004-07-02 is just the signature creation time.  Luk has
> >> recently changed his primary user ID, and GnuPG uses it when displying
> >> the issuer.  The certificate itself does not contain a user ID.
> 
> > Which version of gpnupg allow changing of the primary user ID.
> > That used to be impossible, but I'm willing to learn.
> 
> GnuPG in sid has a "primary" command under --edit-key.
> 
> Unless you take special measures, the user ID with the most recent
> self-signature is considered the primary user ID.  For keys with
> trusted signatures, things are a bit more complicated, though.

Okay.
Now I begin to see that signature is independent of the (primary) User ID


Thanks
Geert Stappers