Multiple recipients

[Brian Rosenvinge]

A vendor will be encrypting files for us and making them available via 
FTP.  We have three users that will decrypt the files at different 
times.  The vendor will not accept more than one key from us and we 
wanted each of our users to have their own key for security and auditing 
purposes down the line.

Robert J. Hansen wrote:

>Brian Rosenvinge wrote:
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>>Is it possible with GPG to take the public keys of three or more
>>users and merge them into a single key?  The single key could then be
>>used to encrypt a file that all three or more recipients could read
>>using their respective private key.
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>What's wrong with
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>	gpg -r <user1> -r <user2> -r <user3> --encrypt file.txt
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>?
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