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On 3/6/17, 9:41 AM, "Werner Koch" wrote:
On Mon, 27 Feb 2017 15:20, jeste...@microsoft.com said:
> I'm working on re-impl
On Tue, 7 Mar 2017 21:03, tliko...@iki.fi said:
> Interesting. It seems that the feature is not documented. I tested
> version 2.1.18 in Debian testing and neither the man page nor
> --edit-key's "help" command tells anything about the feature.
One of the hidden commands to be revealed in case t
Werner Koch [2017-03-07 19:21:25+01] wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Mar 2017 09:40, billdanger...@gmail.com said:
>> Is there a way (even if hacking gpg code is needed), to change those
>> subkey flags ?
>
> With 2.1 it is easy:
>
> gpg --edit-key THEKEY
> gpg> key N
> gpg> change-usage
>
> and follow
On Tue, 7 Mar 2017 09:40, billdanger...@gmail.com said:
> I would like first to be sure that this process of migrating a master key
> to subkey is reliable ? Am I not breaking something, that I am going to
> regret ?
Please see the other comments.
> Is there a way (even if hacking gpg code is n
> On 7 Mar 2017, at 08:40, Bill Dangerous wrote:
>
> Indeed, my old master key which is now a subkey, has all the flags (SCEA),
> and I don't know how to change that. I would like to limit flags to SE
I would strongly recommend against that. I would create completely new subkeys,
including (e
On 07/03/17 15:08, Robert J. Hansen wrote:
> Whoever told you this was badly misinformed. While you *can* do this,
> it is by no means a general recommendation.
Right, yes, and that :-). I wholeheartedly agree, but kinda went past
that in my response.
I'm more worried about the possibility of yo
On 07/03/17 09:40, Bill Dangerous wrote:
> I would like today to correct my mistake without loosing my key, so I
> need to transform this master key into a subkey.
With GnuPG 2.1, I think this is easily doable. Which version of GnuPG
are you using? With the older branches, this is quite difficult.
> Sometimes ago, I generated my master key without following the state of
> the art of the gpg, meaning using an offline master key, and only sign
> and enrypt with subkeys.
Whoever told you this was badly misinformed. While you *can* do this,
it is by no means a general recommendation. The only
Hi,
Sometimes ago, I generated my master key without following the state of the
art of the gpg, meaning using an offline master key, and only sign and
enrypt with subkeys.
I would like today to correct my mistake without loosing my key, so I need
to transform this master key into a subkey. I follow
