[cleek@cleekhouse.com: gpg and subkeys]

[Brian Minton]

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I don't really know enough about subkeys, what do you think?

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Brian,

I've been playing around a bit with subkeys.  All the documentation I
can find indicatest that gpg will first use a subkey to sign if possible
rather than the master key.  This would be indicated with an error
message along the lines of "using secondary key <keyid> instead of
primary key <keyid>".  However, when I generate an additional subkey and
then sign a document, I don't get that error message, and in fact gpg
indicates that it's using the primary key to sign. =20

Do you have any experience with this?  I'm running gpg 1.0.6

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