Re: Key safety vs Backup : History of a bad day (key-restoration problem)

2007-11-01 Thread YYZ
a symmetric enc key too, with a simple password that you would always remember... yyz __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ Gnupg

Re: A note to Atom Smasher [WAS: Subkey DSA signature changes...]

2007-11-01 Thread YYZ
--- Atom Smasher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 30 Oct 2007, YYZ wrote: > > > Going through the list archives, I came across a few of your > postings > > that seem to indicate that you have more insight into the way > subkey > > self-signatures are g

A note to Atom Smasher [WAS: Subkey DSA signature changes...]

2007-10-30 Thread YYZ
ugh, the signature itself is different in case of newly generated keys. But when importing from an exported private key or the secret keyring, the secret subkey signature is just copied over to the private keyring. Appreciate if you could offer some insight into this. Thanks! --- YYZ <[EMAIL

Subkey DSA signature changes after importing secret keyring

2007-10-29 Thread YYZ
Hi everyone! Can anyone exlain this strange gpg behavior, observed when I follow these steps? I use gpg to generate a key-pair using default options (1024D/2048g). Afterwards, I import the secret keyring into another account, and issue the following commands "gpg --export" and "gpg --export-sec