secret keys and public keys

[Russell O'Connor]

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[To: gnupg-users at gnupg.org]

1. Are there tools to take a subkey from one key and transfer it to be the
subkey of another key, or do I have to write my own?

2. Why is it that GnuPG will refuse to decrypt using a secret key if there
is no corresponding public key in one's public key ring?

Thanks for any info.

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Russell O'Connor                <http://math.berkeley.edu/~roconnor/>
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