<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>Nvm, apologies for the spam.<br></div>I retract my question now after having conferred with a third-party.<br><br></div>I understand now your hypothetical scenario - thanks!<br></div><br></div>Does anyone else have any thoughts on the reduced complexity of juggling multiple (sub?)keys vs the security implications of not separating Authentication/Signing to different (sub?)keys?<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 4:16 PM Christian Chavez <<a href="mailto:x10an14@gmail.com">x10an14@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Dirk-Willem!</div><div>Thanks for your reply - but I'm unfortunately lost as to your (what I surmise is your implied) hypothetical use-case?<br><br></div><div>Ref:<br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 2:56 PM Dirk-Willem van Gulik <<a href="mailto:dirkx@webweaving.org" target="_blank">dirkx@webweaving.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div>Keep in mind that in some workplaces the building of that trust explicitly includes the need for counter-intelligence - and hence a legitimate use of fake signatures.</div><div></div><div>Though I have a hard time imagining a use case in the european private sector for that.</div></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>Would you mind elaborating on when you'd foresee/imagine such a non-european/non-private sector have a need for this?<br></div><div>There's nothing that would stop the user in question utilizing multiple separate "main" keys, and not just separate sub-keys per A, S, E capability in your scenario (even when A and S capabilities reside on the _same_ private/public sub-key pair).<br></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Med vennlig hilsen/Kind regards,</span><br></div><div><div>Christian Chavez</div><div>Phone/Tlf: +47 922 22 603</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Med vennlig hilsen/Kind regards,</span><br></div><div><div>Christian Chavez</div><div>Phone/Tlf: +47 922 22 603</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>