From Masterkey to subkey

Teemu Likonen tlikonen at iki.fi
Tue Mar 7 21:03:33 CET 2017


Werner Koch [2017-03-07 19:21:25+01] wrote:

> On Tue,  7 Mar 2017 09:40, billdangerous at gmail.com said:
>> Is there a way (even if hacking gpg code is needed), to change those
>> subkey flags ?
>
> With 2.1 it is easy:
>
>   gpg --edit-key  THEKEY
>   gpg> key N
>   gpg> change-usage
>
> and follow the prompt.

Interesting. It seems that the feature is not documented. I tested
version 2.1.18 in Debian testing and neither the man page nor
--edit-key's "help" command tells anything about the feature.


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