can you please explain what are C subkey? unfortunately a search with those terms does not return nothing relevant, a direct link to some docs would be nice.
Also i took a look at rfc4880bis but again i can't see how is related to C key or this argument at all. (sent again as sent only to andrew instead of all user list, sorry!) 2017-09-10 18:34 GMT+02:00 Andrew Gallagher <andr...@andrewg.com>: > >> On 10 Sep 2017, at 16:28, Leo Gaspard <l...@gaspard.io> wrote: >> >> I can think of at least one use case it covers in addition to an offline >> masterkey (but that would also be covered by C subkeys): the ability to >> sign others’ keys without using your masterkey. This would allow to not >> have to expose the keysigning device to untrusted data/software/hardware >> that would carry the to-be-signed key. > > I think C subkeys are a *much* simpler solution for that use case. Better to > treat this scenario as "solved in principle" and put it aside for the time > being. > > A _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
