Hi, On Friday 05 November 2010 11:58:13 Sven Klomp wrote: > since I bought a Crypto Stick [1], I had to add an additional RSA sub-key for > encryption, since the stick doesn't support Elgamal. Thus, I have two > encryption keys in my public keyring now. How does gpg decide which one to > use for encryption? I thought, that every key is used and I can decide to use > the Elgamal or RSA key for decryption. But it seems, that only one sub-key is > used (RSA) for encryption. > Do I have a general misunderstanding of the concept?
Does nobody have a hint for me? Maybe my description was a little bit vague. Let's start again :-) I have a public key configuration as follows: Primary Key (DSA for signing other keys) - Sub-key 1 (Elgamal for encryption) - Sub-key 2 (RSA for signing mails/files) - Sub-key 3 (RSA for encryption) How does GnuPG decide, what encryption key should be used? In my tests, a file or mail is always encrypted with sub-key 3. But why? I'm afraid, that some other applications may choose the Elgamal sub-key... I thought a normal behaviour would be to use all valid sub-keys for encrypting files. Is it only allowed to have one valid encryption sub-key? Regards Sven _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
