On 10/09/16 20:56, Stephan Beck wrote: > And, by the way, does the screen output in your previous mail really > show that a subkey with the same ID as the pubkey (so, a duplicate of > the pubkey) is being used for decrypting a file encrypted to your > pubkey? I mean, that wouldn't make sense in terms of public key > cryptography and is duly canceled by gpg. > Am I missing something?
It looks fine to me, I think you're getting confused by it referring to the key in several ways. Here's part of the output for "gpg2 -v -d" for me: > gpg: public key is 73A33BEE > gpg: using subkey 73A33BEE instead of primary key DE500B3E > gpg: using subkey 73A33BEE instead of primary key DE500B3E > gpg: encrypted with 2048-bit RSA key, ID 73A33BEE, created 2009-11-12 > "Peter Lebbing <pe...@digitalbrains.com>" It first notices the key it is encrypted to is 73A33BEE, which is a subkey. Then it really wants me to know that it is using this subkey of the primary DE500B3E :-). Finally it shows the actual subkey it was encrypted to along with the primary User ID of the key as a whole. HTH, Peter. -- I use the GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG) in combination with Enigmail. You can send me encrypted mail if you want some privacy. My key is available at <http://digitalbrains.com/2012/openpgp-key-peter> _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users