On 2020-07-14T11:20:53+0200 Ingo Klöcker <kloec...@kde.org> wrote 2.5K bytes:
> On Dienstag, 14. Juli 2020 02:48:06 CEST Philihp Busby via Gnupg-users wrote: > > 2: What benefits benefits are there to having separate master keys for > > personal and professional use? Outside of not wanting the identities > > linked, because I am not yet famous enough for that. > > You might not want to store your personal master key on a computer provided > (and controlled) by your employer. Is this alleviated by subkeys? i.e. it is not necessary to keep the master key on another's device. > Also: Ask yourself what happens when you change the employer. Your employer > might want you to revoke the key. And your new employer probably doesn't want > the old employer's UID on the key you use for the new employer. That's what I've done; revoke it. I have not had any employers ever care about my weird PGP thing, but they disable my access to the email when I got fired, of course. > If you are self-employed and/or use a smartcard for you master key, then > those > reasons may not be that relevant. > > But I suggest to ask the opposite question: What benefits are there for _not_ > having separate master keys for personal and professional use? The things I found are limits/benefits: - I can only have one 'default' key in my gpg.conf - My global gitconfig can only have one user.signingKey _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
