Confused about sub-keys.

[David Shaw]

On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 04:41:14PM +0200, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
> "Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder" <avbidder@fortytwo.ch> writes:
> > On Sun, 2002-09-29 at 15:08, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > Is it possible to store a sub-key separate from the "master" key (for
> > > the purpose to store the master key off-line, and then only using the
> > > sub-key for encryption, or something along those lines)?
> > 
> > Hi!
> > 
> > It is possible, but the solution is not very elegant and has some
> > implications on people verifying your signatures.
> 
> > See the notice in my email .sig, look at my key, and look at
> > http://fortytwo.ch/gpg/subkeys
> 
> Oh, now that is great. Now the only thing left is to get
> --list-secret-keys to output some useful information if the master
> key is not present.  Or is this already implemented in GnuPG 1.2.0?

It's in 1.2.1:

sec# 4096R/99242560 2002-01-28 David M. Shaw <dshaw@jabberwocky.com>
ssb  2048g/1643B926 2002-01-28

Look for the '#'.

David

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