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The origin of the key or the user ID. This is an integer
optionally followed by a space and an URL. This goes along with
- the previous field. The URL is quoted in C style.
+ the previous field. The URL is quoted in C style. Note that the
+ origin is stored for a user ID as well as for the entire key. The
+ latter solves the cases where a key is updated by fingerprint and
+ and thus there is no way to know which user ID shall be used.
*** Field 21 - Comment