Encryption to key with multiple subkeys

markus reichelt ml at mareichelt.com
Tue May 11 23:02:18 CEST 2010


* Joke de Buhr <joke at seiken.de> wrote:

> I'm not quiet sure but shouldn't gnupg encrypt to both (all
> not-revoked) encryption keys in this case? This way the user could
> decrypt the encrypted message (email) regardless what encryption
> keys secrets are available at the current location.

Nope. More to the point, think about people having both private UID
and business UID on the same key - the way you describe it could mix
things up badly.

(I guess you know how to tell people to use a specific subkey)

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