Convert "Sign Only" Primary Key

[Klaus Fuerstberger]

Alphax said the following on 10/04/05 12:04:

>>>a time ago I created a "Sign Only" DSA Key with an ElGamal Encrypt
>>>Subkey. Now I noticed that it is not possible to encrypt a message with
>>>PGP to this Public Key because PGP only sees the "sign only" primary Key
>>>and not the encrypting subkey.

> Must be a very old version of PGP...

Maybe You missunderstand my procederes:
$ gpg --gen-key
Please select what kind of key you want:
   (1) DSA and ElGamal (default)
   (2) DSA (sign only)
   (4) RSA (sign only)

Here I selected "2". After the key creation I did a:

Command> addkey
Please select what kind of key you want:
   (2) DSA (sign only)
   (3) ElGamal (encrypt only)
   (4) RSA (sign only)
   (5) RSA (encrypt only)

Here I selected "3".

This key does not work with PGP5 for encryption. Only for signing.

Bye
Klaus