Error with encrypting: unusable public key

Laurent Jumet laurent.jumet at skynet.be
Fri Mar 2 11:05:48 CET 2007


Hello Olaf !

Olaf Gellert <olaf.gellert at intrusion-lab.net> wrote:

>> pub  2048R/CC21E10F  created: 2006-11-21  expires: never       usage: SC
>>
>> This is the information given in --edit-key. And the usage
>> is the solution for your problem.
>> It has *no* capability to encrypt data.

> Thanx, I missed that. So this is one of the "sign only"
> keys and to enable encryption, one would add an encryption
> only subkey?

    Not on that one, it's a RSA key.

-- 
Laurent Jumet
      KeyID: 0xCFAF704C



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