back signatures

[David Shaw]

On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 01:39:17AM +1030, Alphax wrote:

> 1. I have a cvs version of 1.4.3, how do I issue backsigs?

Backsigs are part of a signing subkey.  You don't generally need to
issue them, since they are generated automatically when you make a
signing subkey.  If you have an older key with one or more signing
subkeys and want to add backsigs to it, do 'gpg --edit-key (thekey)'
and use the 'backsign' command.

> 2. How can I move some subkeys from one key to another, where the key I
> want to move them too currently has NO subkeys?

Moving subkeys around is not supported in GnuPG.  You can follow the
steps in http://atom.smasher.org/gpg/gpg-migrate.txt if you want to do
it manually.

There are generally few reasons to move subkeys from one key to
another.  Usually a better answer is to just make another one -
subkeys are cheap.

David