Separate Fingerprint for elGamal-Subkey?

Sven Radde email at sven-radde.de
Mon Oct 22 14:24:39 CEST 2007


Hi!

Pitigrilli schrieb:
> I thought that there is only one fingerprint and that this would be
> sufficient to confirm the integrity of the public key.
All your subkeys are signed by your primary key (see "gpg --list-sigs",
the lines with "sig" after each "sub" line).
Therefore, verifying the fingerprints of subkeys is not necessary (or
particularly sensible - IMHO) if the main fingerprint and its signatures
on the subkeys are OK.

cu, Sven



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