Which key is used to sign key?

Muri Nicanor muri+gnupg-users at immerda.ch
Mon Mar 28 19:32:41 CEST 2016


hi

On 03/28/2016 07:05 PM, flapflap wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Muri Nicanor:
>> when i have multiple secret keys, how can i specify which one to use to
>> sign a key? (i.e. when using --quick-sign-key)
> 
> I didn't check with --quick-sign-key specifically, but usually I do the
> signing key selection via --sign-with KEYID/NAME, for example:
> 
>   gpg2 --sign-with flapflap --sign-key muri
> 
> But strangely enough, I did not find --sign-with in the man page (Debian
> stable) or gpg2 --help...

ah, thanks! yes, looking at the source this seems to be an alias for
--local-user / -u

cheers,
muri



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