Expanding web-of-trust with subkey

Kristian Fiskerstrand kristian.fiskerstrand at sumptuouscapital.com
Wed Feb 15 16:33:50 CET 2017


On 02/15/2017 03:27 PM, Adam Sherman wrote:
> On 2017-02-15 06:51 AM, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote:
>>> Do I need access to my master key in order to expand my web of
>>> trust? This seems like quite a restriction.
>> Yes, although you can generate a local CA key to use for this purpose
>> for short term validity considerations used for local signatures.
> 
> How do you do that? Is there a type of sub-key you use?
> 

No, just a completely separated primary key with C capability, no
subkeys and is never published anywhere, rotated regularly to issue
lsigns for short term use


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