Update existing key to ECC?

MFPA 2014-667rhzu3dc-lists-groups at riseup.net
Sat Nov 22 23:14:47 CET 2014


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Hi


On Saturday 22 November 2014 at 3:01:02 PM, in
<mid:13001443.41m1GfcYW6 at inno>, Hauke Laging wrote:


> You can change the subkeys (encryption, signing) easily
> but not the  mainkey (the one the fingerprint refers
> to). But hardly any GnuPG out  there can use ECC now.

Newly-added ECC signing and encryption subkeys would be used in
preference by GnuPG 2.1; older GnuPG versions would ignore them and
use the older subkeys. And you can configure GnuPG 2.1 to sign with
both signing subkeys (or just the older subkey, but then what's the
point of the newer one?), so that contacts using older versions would
be able to verify your signatures.

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Best regards

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After all is said and done, a lot more will be said than done.
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