Confused about Sub keys.

Simon Dwyer sdwyer at spykes.id.au
Thu Jun 12 06:18:46 CEST 2008


Was this a joke or was i ment to acutally take something from that?  ...
or was it never leave your subkeys laying around? :P

On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 16:24 -0400, Scott Lambdin wrote:
> Good example of why you need subkeys.
>  
> http://www.wsbtv.com/news/15847652/detail.html
> 
>  
> On 6/9/08, Simon Dwyer <sdwyer at spykes.id.au> wrote: 
>         Hi everyone,
>         
>         I am new  to all this and have been alot of reading.
>         
>         One thing i cant get my head around is subkeys.  I have
>         generated a sub
>         key with my master key and i undestand that.  All the commands
>         and thing
>         i have been doing i have been using my master keys id...
>         should i be
>         actively using my sub key? or does it just use it as i talk to
>         people?
>         
>         Cheers,
>         
>         Simon Dwyer
>         
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