Encrypting to secondary key

Larry Ellis Larry_C_Ellis@hotmail.com
Mon Sep 16 18:58:02 2002


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Even if the syntax you specify is used, the warning message I originally =
asked about is still issued.  (The message is only displayed in =
"verbose" mode).

Perhaps it is your intention to display that message any time a =
secondary key is used, no matter how the secondary key was selected.  =
That seems to be the way gpg is behaving.   If so, It's just a little =
confusing for DSA/ElGamal since it is not possible to use the primary =
key for encryption.


> > One cannot argue with the truth of the message, but I wonder if it =
is
intentional to output this message even when the key is specified
directly....
>
> if you want gpg to use a specific subkey, you must append a '!' to the
> keyID: -r 0x12345678!
>


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