automated signing with password-less subkeys

Joe Rhett jrhett@isite.net
Sun Apr 29 09:45:01 2001


FYI, it appears that updating to 1.04h solved the problem. Other than the
/proc issue in the chroot jail, it appears to work properly. FYI I just
wanted to say that your idea of discarding crucial parts of the secret key
is fabulous.

On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 02:49:23PM -0700, Joe Rhett wrote:

> I got the 1.04h snapshot last night and I'll test with that.
>
> FYI: running 1.04h under the webserver ID now dies with "Jeee ... you've
> found a bug!" or something like that, where 1.04 ran fine. When I ran into
> that I'd been awake for 28+ hours so I decided to catch some sleep before
> trying to debug it. I'll send more details tonight when I can really test.
>
> On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 10:27:45PM +0200, Werner Koch wrote:
> > On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Joe Rhett wrote:
> >
> > > That's what I did. When I originally sent this message I included the
> > > entire process I followed -- every step. I ran addkey, and chose a
> > > signing-only key.
> >
> > Sorry, I checked the mail again and you proceeded correct.
> >
> > It seems that signing does not work. It is possible that I never
> > tested it with the old version. GnuPG 1.05 and the 1.0.4h snapshot
> > have the key selection code rewritten from scratch I have really
> > tested that subkeys are preferred if they are cabable of signing.
> > You can seen how these versions select a key by using the option
> > "--debug 64".
> >
> > Hth,
> >
> > Werner
> >
> >
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