Migrating to Smartcards

[Richard]

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 20:49, David Tomaschik <david at systemoverlord.com> wrote:

> No, you can store a primary key.  And you can use the 3 slots for any
> purpose (though I believe they must all tie to the same primary key.).
>  It would be common to combine signing & certification into one key
> (and I believe that is the default).

So it is impossible to use a separate signing subkey if I want to
retain the possibility to sign other keys without keeping an off-card
backup of the primary key? In the past I switched my singing subkeys
every couple of years, keeping my primary key in place.

    Richard