Problems with two active encryption subkeys

[MFPA]

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Hi


On Wednesday 10 November 2010 at 3:21:21 PM, in
<mid:201011101621.21613.mailinglisten at hauke-laging.de>, Hauke Laging
wrote:



> AFAIK gpg takes the (compatible) subkey which is valid
> for the longest remaining period.

I thought Gunpg used the largest available subkey for the task, and
multiple appropriate sukeys were of the same size the newest would be
used.



>  Unfortunately you
> cannot even force gpg to use a certain subkey
> (directly): Giving a subkey ID as encryption target
> triggers a strange process: gpg looks for the main  key
> of this ID and then selects the subkey as if the main
> key ID had been given...

What happens when you specify the subkey with an exclamation mark (!)
after the key id?


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I think not, said Descartes, and promptly disappeared
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