Signing sub-key with PGP

[Werner Koch]

On Wed, 23 May 2001, disastry@saiknes.lv wrote:

> > Now, I signed a message with my signing subkey and tried to verify it with
> > PGP 6 and 7. PGP 6 said the signature was bad while PGP 7 said the signing
> > algorithm was not supported. When I signed the same message with the main

PGP 7 does not support subkeys on signature verification?  Are you
really sure?  That is an essential OpenPGP feature.

Can someone please check this again?

> you can convert subkey to a key with a hex editor
> of course you must understand PGP key format.. read RFC2440 first

I should really write this little packet composition tool, it would
have come quite handy in several situations.

  Werner


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