What are subkeys for?

Tue Mar 4 08:53:02 2003

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On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 05:00, Adi Linden wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
> Just creating some keys. Being able to have multiple uid's associated wit=
h=20
> the same key is great. But what is the purpose of subkeys? Just curious=20
> (wanting to learn :)

Some docs are on my page on http://fortytwo.ch/gpg/subkeys

cheers
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