Do we need more than one subkey?

[Dashamir Hoxha]

> The best solution in my opinion would be to allow batch mode [1] to create
> more than one subkey. The manual says "Currently only one subkey can be >
handled".
> I don't know, is it difficult to implement, or it is considered bad
practice (and thus
> the restriction).

On a second thinking, I believe that in a typical case no more than
one subkey is needed.
And one subkey is actually required (in a typical case) in order to have
a different key for signing and for decryption (which is a recomended best
practice).

Peace,
Dashamir
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Having issues with dirmngr in gpg 2.1

[Daniel Ranft]

Hi,

Since a few weeks I cannot search keys anymore. When I use gpg --keyserver 
 --search-keys , the commandline freezes and the process 
explorer does not show me a dirmngr.exe instance.
I then tried to investigate this further by trying to start the dirmngr 
manually with following result:

C:\Program Files (x86)\GNU\GnuPG\2.1.12\bin>dirmngr.exe --daemon
dirmngr[5020]: Error while opening 
`C:\ProgramData\GNU\etc\gnupg\ldapservers.conf': No such file or directory
dirmngr[5020]: The socket cannot be bound to `C:\Windows\S.dirmngr': Unknown 
error

I localized some parts of the string by myself as they were german.

What worked for me was to start the dirmngr manually with explicit --homedir 
%appdata%\gnupg, but I do not use an alternative homedirectory by environment 
variable or registry key. Therefore I think, gpg should try to create the 
socket file under %appdata%\gnupg instead of under C:\Windows.

Any suggestions where I should look for a mistake in my configuration?

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Best regards,
Daniel

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