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

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On Wed, 23 Jun 2004, Stoyan Dimitrov wrote:

> As far as I can remember in man pages there's no such thinkg like encrypting 
> RSA keys. And generating of keys of that type is "certain potentially 
> incompatible" (http://annys.eines.info/cgi-bin/man/man2html?1+gpg). So in 
> general it is not needed to distinguish RSA keytypes.
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i'm not sure about the man page, but gpg *does* handle RSA keys in 
sign-only, encrypt-only and sign+encrypt variations.

in the output from --list-keys, all of them are noted as "R".

actually... AFAIK, the RSA keys are technically the same for all 3 of the 
different uses; only the flags on the key specify how it is to be used.


 	...atom

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