GPG, subkeys smartcard and computer

Personal (open) sheldon.corey at openmailbox.org
Mon Feb 20 16:40:01 CET 2017


 

On 20.02.2017 15:25, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: 

> On 02/19/2017 01:45 PM, Andrew Gallagher wrote:
> 
>> And in the case of A and S, there next to no benefit - if one of your subkeys is lost you should revoke it immediately anyway
> 
> Wouldn't consider this accurate, the typical use case for multiple A
> subkeys is per-device usage, explicitly to avoid having to revoke all if
> one is compromised.
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Another use-case would be using rsa and ecc ( ecc on the laptop/desktop
and rsa subs on the smartcard) 
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