v3 subkeys and signatures (was: Using second keyring may be)

Georgi Guninski guninski at guninski.com
Sat Jun 23 15:59:03 CEST 2012


On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 09:21:05AM -0400, David Shaw wrote:
> Yes. Werner and I were discussing this in the context of the OpenPGP spec. In OpenPGP, v3 keys cannot have subkeys (it's in section 11 - "V3 keys MUST NOT have subkeys"). GPG actually allowed this for a while until the spec was changed.  If you patch the code, you can of course make it do anything you want :)
>


I meant patched gpg generated the keys, testing was done with vanilla gpg.

For me fake4 *allows* v3 subkeys of v3 keys. Checked with vanilla 1.4.12
and 2.0.19.

Have you tested fake4 (attached again)?


I might be missing something.
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