Detection of sign-only vs. sign-and-encrypt keys

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On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Stoyan Dimitrov wrote:

> when you type:
> gpg --list-keys
> look in the input after the type of the key (pub|sup) is the length of the 
> key folowed by a single letter (for example '1024g') this letter tells you 
> what is the what kind exactly is the key.
> read this: http://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/manual.html#AEN244
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that alone won't distinguish a sign-only RSA key, an encrypt-only RSA key 
or a sign+encrypt RSA key.... in all cases the key type is "R".


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Comment: http://atom.smasher.org/links/#digital_signatures

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