Do we need more than one subkey?

Dashamir Hoxha dashohoxha at gmail.com
Fri May 13 12:08:20 CEST 2016


> The best solution in my opinion would be to allow batch mode [1] to create
> more than one subkey. The manual says "Currently only one subkey can be >
handled".
> I don't know, is it difficult to implement, or it is considered bad
practice (and thus
> the restriction).

On a second thinking, I believe that in a typical case no more than
one subkey is needed.
And one subkey is actually required (in a typical case) in order to have
a different key for signing and for decryption (which is a recomended best
practice).

Peace,
Dashamir
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