Different signing & encryption keys

[Werner Koch]

On Wed, 13 Aug 2014 06:29, rjh at sixdemonbag.org said:

> Look at the right hand side.  For each subkey (including the main
> signing key) there will be an entry for "usage".  This field can contain
> the letters S, C, A, or E.

Using --edit-key is a bit cumbersome and --with-colons is hard to read.
Thus what about this new option:

  $ gpg2 -k --list-options show-usage 1e42b367
  pub   dsa2048/1E42B367 2007-12-31 [SC  ] [expires: 2018-12-31]
  uid       [ unknown] Werner Koch <wk at gnupg.org>
  uid       [ unknown] Werner Koch <xxxx>
  uid       [ unknown] Werner Koch <xxxxxxx>
  sub   dsa1024/77F95F95 2011-11-02 [S   ]
  sub   rsa2048/664D7444 2014-01-02 [E   ] [expires: 2016-12-31]
  
However, it might be better to use a variable length field because the
column position depends on the algorithm anyway:

  pub   dsa2048/1E42B367 2007-12-31 [SC] [expires: 2018-12-31]
  uid       [ unknown] Werner Koch <wk at gnupg.org>
  uid       [ unknown] Werner Koch <xxxx>
  uid       [ unknown] Werner Koch <xxxxxxx>
  sub   dsa1024/77F95F95 2011-11-02 [S]
  sub   rsa2048/664D7444 2014-01-02 [E] [expires: 2016-12-31]



Salam-Shalom,

   Werner

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