Different signing & encryption keys

[Phillip Susi]

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On 08/12/2014 03:05 PM, Werner Koch wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Aug 2014 19:50, psusi at ubuntu.com said:
>> We used to use different keys for signing and encrypting ( DSA &
>> El Gammel ), but these days just seem to use a single RSA key by
>> default.
> 
> That is not the case.  GnuPG creates an RSA signing key and an RSA 
> encryption subkey by default.  These are different keys because
> the common wisdom is to use one key for one purpose.

How do you tell which one is which?  It used to be that the 'D' prefix
meant DSA, which was signing only, and 'g' or 'G' was for el gammel
signing or encryption, but now they all just show 'R'.


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