Attaching subkeys to a different master key

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Mon Apr 9 21:11:39 CEST 2012


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On 09/04/12 19:31, Werner Koch wrote:

>> it wont accept keys exported using --export-secret-subkeys. I
>> was hoping to generate a new "fake" master key so I don't need to
>> put my real master key on the phone.
> 
> That won't work in practice because you would end up with a
> different fingerprint.

This is what I suspected. Thanks for the confirmation.

> What about fixing APG?

This would be the best option of course. There's been a bug report
open for about a year. APG hasn't had much work done on it for a while
so I'm not confident it will be addressed any time soon:
https://code.google.com/p/android-privacy-guard/issues/detail?id=104

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