Multiple sub-signingkeys

Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder avbidder@fortytwo.ch
Tue Apr 29 13:06:17 2003


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[reply on list please]
On Saturday 26 April 2003 21:13, Per Tunedal wrote:

> This crippled key can be used on an insecure computer, while your complete
> key can be used on a secure computer. When listing secret keys for the
> original key the primary key is shown without the #.
>
> You can thus easily see what secret keys are present in each keyring.
>
> (If I am right it might be a good idea to emphasize this on your page,
> Adrian!)

I guess you mean this part:
+--
| To verify that you really don't have any secret keys you don't want, have=
 a=20
| look at the output of "gpg --list-secret-keys", your primary secret key=20
| should be marked with a '#':=20
+--

Hmm. I'm not entirely sure what exactly you feel I should clarify. Would=20
something like

+--
| ...should be marked with a '#' (this means that the 'primary key' you're
| seeing is really only a placeholder and does not contain the secret key
| data.):
+--

clarify it in the way you thought?

cheers
=2D- vbi

=2D-=20
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