pub & sub

[Nicolas Couture]

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On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 19:42, Newton Hammet wrote:
> Nicolas Couture wrote:
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> > On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 10:53, Newton Hammet wrote:
> > > Nicolas Couture wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I curently has both pub and sub keys setted to 1024D :
> > > >
> > > > pub  1024D/ ... .. .
> > > > sub  1024D/ ... .. .
> > > >
> > > > I'd like to set my sub key to 2048g is it possible ?
> > > >
> > > > How can I do it ?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks.
> > > >
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> > > You can optionally delete the 1024D subkey... then do an addkey
> > > and select 2048-bit length.  You can't take the 1024D subkey and
> > > make it longer.
> > >
> > > gpg --edit-key <keyid>
> > >
> > > and follow the prompts...
> > >
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> > I tried your solution with half success:
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> > ---
> > remote@dimension:~$ gpg --list-key
> > ...
> > pub  1024D/4C7461CF 2002-10-22 Nicolas Couture <nc@stormvault.net>
> > sub  1024g/87018F83 2002-10-22 [expires: 2006-06-20]
> > sub  2048g/9FDDA627 2002-10-22 [expires: 2006-06-20]
> > ...
> > remote@dimension:~$ gpg --edit-key nc@stormvault.net
> > ...
> > Secret key is available.
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> > pub  1024D/4C7461CF  created: 2002-10-22 expires: 2006-06-20 trust: -/d
> > *** This key has been disabled
> > sub  1024g/87018F83  created: 2002-10-22 expires: 2006-06-20
> > sub  2048g/9FDDA627  created: 2002-10-22 expires: 2006-06-20
> > (1). Nicolas Couture <nc@stormvault.net>
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> > I can not use delkey specifying the keyid 87018F83
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> That isn't how it is used.
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> first you must enter the command=20
> 'key N'
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> where 'N' is the number of the subkey you want to delete.
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> then enter 'delkey'.
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> then that should work.
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Ok I got it now. But how could I have figured this out alone ?
Where is this written at ?

Thanks alot.
	Nicolas Couture

> > ---
> > Command> delkey 87018F83
> > You must select at least one key.
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> > I even tried delkey nc@stormvault.net and it gave me the same error
> > message.
> >=20
> > Thanks in advance!
> >=20


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