I d like to have multiple signing key in my certificate

[John Clizbe]

Jean-Jacques Brucker wrote:
> Hi, I wanted to hold multiple signing key in my certificate, so I created 2 sub-keys with the sign flag. But I am unable to choose the key I want to use to sign : I have tried to specify the signing key I want to use with the --local-user option, eg.: 
> 
> $ gpg2 --detach-sign -u 96193F28 M.C.jpg
> $ gpg2 --detach-sign -u 7CFD0EC7 M.C.jpg
> 
> But both signatures use the last signing key in my certificate. (ie. 7CFD0EC7).
> 
> Is there a way to tell gpg (i still use v. 2.0.13... i will compile the git
> version soon) to sign with a specific key in a certificate ?

IIRC, GnuPG will use the newest valid capable subkey to sign.

From the man papge:
>        Note that you can append an exclamation mark (!) to key IDs or  finger-
>        prints.   This  flag  tells  GnuPG to use the specified primary or sec-
>        ondary key and not to try and calculate which primary or secondary  key
>        to use.

So your example commands become:

$ gpg2 --detach-sign -u 0x96193F28! M.C.jpg
$ gpg2 --detach-sign -u 0x7CFD0EC7! M.C.jpg

-John

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