"ElGamal Encrypt-only keys"

[Werner Koch]

On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, David Crick wrote:


>    (1) DSA and ElGamal (default)
>    (2) DSA (sign only)
>    (4) ElGamal (sign and encrypt)
> 
> 
> Am I therefore correct in assuming that "ElGamal Encrypt-only
> keys" refers to the ElGamal keypair part of (1) above?

Yes.  And if you use addkey from the edit menu you get choice

     (3)  ElGamal (encrypt)
     
which cannot be used for a primary key.

  Werner
  
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