a big and a small key

[David Shaw]

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On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 02:30:35PM +0100, Manuel Hendel wrote:

> I heard of people using two different keys, a big 4096 RSA key and
> small 1024 DSA and ElGamal key. The lifetime of the small key is just
> one year. The lifetime of the big key is not limited. The big key is
> just used to sign and get signed. The small get signed by the big key
> and is replaced every year. The big key somewhere in a save place and
> not for daily use.
> How can this be done?

Adrian von Bidder has a nice HOWTO for this at
http://fortytwo.ch/gpg/subkeys/

David
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