Is it possible to certify (sign) a key using a subkey?

2017-08-16 Thread Mario Castelán Castro
Suppose I would like to sign another user's key using one of my secp256k1 subkeys, instead of my primary key, because it generates smaller signatures. gpg does not appear to support this. If I try to generate a subkey with certify capability “gpg --expert --edit-key ...” and then “addkey”, the opti

Re: Is it possible to certify (sign) a key using a subkey?

2017-08-16 Thread Robert J. Hansen
> Why is this behavior? I took a glance at RFC4880 and I could not find a > requirement that only primary keys are used for certifying, although it > is very possible that I just missed it. Does the subkey have the certify capability on it? If the subkey isn't marked for certifying, it can't be u

help with gnupg

2017-08-16 Thread Bereshka Web and Photo
Hello, Dear Creators :) I will very appreciate if you can help me, because I was surfing a lot in the internet looking for an answer, and read tones of forums, but did not find solution. So I installed gnupg 2 , command gpg didn’t work in Terminal. I was confused and decided to try Gnupg tool