PGP and signing subkeys

David Shaw dshaw@jabberwocky.com
Thu Nov 28 17:57:02 2002


On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 05:20:58PM +0100, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 06:35, David Shaw wrote:
> 
> > Some good news on the signing subkeys front - after the disappointment
> > of the first beta, I wrote a note to the PGP folks giving the various
> > rationales of signing subkeys and the new PGP 8 beta now supports
> > signing subkeys.  I tested it, and it works fine with both DSA and RSA
> > signing subkeys.
> 
> Yo!
> 
> Which build would that be? 
> 
> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
> > Version: PGP 8.0 (Build 349) Beta
> 
> I guess this one was the first beta, because a collegue of mine can't
> verify my signatures.

Hmm.  Build 349 is the one that seems to have fixed it.  I have 349
and your subkey-signed document at
http://fortytwo.ch/legal/gpg/email.20020822 verifies just fine.

David

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