Re: trying to understand UID and subkeys

2009-03-05 Thread Joseph Oreste Bruni
On Thursday, March 05, 2009, at 10:14AM, "gerry_lowry (alliston ontario canada)" wrote: >David Shaw wrote, in part: > >You can have one subkey for encryption, one subkey for signing, and >leave your primary key for certification. > >This lets you do tricks like keeping your primary

Re: trying to understand UID and subkeys

2009-03-05 Thread David Shaw
On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 12:14:24PM -0500, gerry_lowry (alliston ontario canada) wrote: > David Shaw wrote, in part: > > You can have one subkey for encryption, one subkey for signing, and > leave your primary key for certification. > > This lets you do tricks like keeping your prima

Re: trying to understand UID and subkeys

2009-03-05 Thread gerry_lowry (alliston ontario canada)
David Shaw wrote, in part: You can have one subkey for encryption, one subkey for signing, and leave your primary key for certification. This lets you do tricks like keeping your primary key offline. This is useful as the primary key is the most "valuable" key (since it can mak

Re: Import all keys from signatures

2009-03-05 Thread David Shaw
On Mar 5, 2009, at 4:48 AM, Dirk Zemisch wrote: Hi, i'm just had some trouble with my keyrings and after all recovery etc. a lot of keys I earlier received are gone. But a lot of them are named in the sigs of my own key. Is there a possibility to read out all key-IDs from the sigs and impor

Re: trying to understand UID and subkeys

2009-03-05 Thread David Shaw
On Mar 5, 2009, at 4:22 AM, Felipe Alvarez wrote: Me again. Sorry to sound newbish. I've googled, but I haven't found anything quite as detailed enough for me to grasp the 'whole forest' (so to speak). My question is regarding 'subkeys.' Let me know if I am getting the wording/terminology

Import all keys from signatures

2009-03-05 Thread Dirk Zemisch
Hi, i'm just had some trouble with my keyrings and after all recovery etc. a lot of keys I earlier received are gone. But a lot of them are named in the sigs of my own key. Is there a possibility to read out all key-IDs from the sigs and import the related keys from a keyserver? Maybe someone her

trying to understand UID and subkeys

2009-03-05 Thread Felipe Alvarez
Me again. Sorry to sound newbish. I've googled, but I haven't found anything quite as detailed enough for me to grasp the 'whole forest' (so to speak). My question is regarding 'subkeys.' Let me know if I am getting the wording/terminology incorrect. I understand that when I 'gen-key' I create a '