secret keys are not imported

David Shaw dshaw at jabberwocky.com
Thu Apr 8 14:30:25 CEST 2010


On Apr 8, 2010, at 6:28 AM, Hauke Laging wrote:

> # LC_ALL=C gpg --list-secret-keys eccb5814
> sec   1024D/ECCB5814 2005-09-05
> uid                  Hauke Laging <hauke at laging.de>
> uid                  Hauke Laging <mail at hauke-laging.de>
> uid                  Hauke Laging <mailinglisten at hauke-laging.de>
> ssb   2048R/51B279FA 2010-03-04 [expires: 2013-03-03]
> ssb   2048R/3A403251 2010-03-04 [expires: 2013-03-03]
> ssb   2048g/E623EF88 2005-09-05 [expires: 2010-04-03]
> 
> But why does the import command say 1 everywhere though obviously not one but 
> three subkeys have been read and imported?

This is normal behavior.  Only primary keys are counted when importing keys, even though there may be multiple subkeys attached.

David




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