Confused about sub-keys.

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

"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?

Cheers,
-- 
Alfred M. Szmidt