Re: Clarification on purpose of subordinate keys

2005-03-31 Thread Werner Koch
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 13:53:47 +0200, Dirk Traulsen said: > This sounds interesting. Please help me to clarify it a bit. > After some tests and reading in my understanding it works like this: [1...7] Correct. > When system2 would be cracked, an attacker would not have access to > the secret part

Re: Clarification on purpose of subordinate keys

2005-03-30 Thread Dirk Traulsen
Am 29 Mar 2005 um 11:15 hat Werner Koch geschrieben: > On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 09:27:27 -0500, John Harrold said: > > > given the time frame it probably happened when I was trying to unexpire the > > key F65A739E. Can you elaborate on the reasons for using a separate key for > > signing messages? >

Re: Clarification on purpose of subordinate keys

2005-03-29 Thread Werner Koch
On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 09:27:27 -0500, John Harrold said: > given the time frame it probably happened when I was trying to unexpire the > key F65A739E. Can you elaborate on the reasons for using a separate key for > signing messages? It is mostly useful if you keep your primary key offline (cf. --ex

Re: Clarification on purpose of subordinate keys

2005-03-28 Thread John Harrold
Sometime in March Charly Avital assaulted the keyboard and produced: | John, | | here's the information I get on your key: | pub 1024D/F65A739E created: 2002-10-02 expires: never usage: CS | trust: unknown validity: unknown | sub 1024R/C7658196 created: 200

Re: Clarification on purpose of subordinate keys

2005-03-27 Thread Charly Avital
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 John, here's the information I get on your key: pub 1024D/F65A739E created: 2002-10-02 expires: never usage: CS trust: unknown validity: unknown sub 1024R/C7658196 created: 2003-10-02 expires: never usage:

Clarification on purpose of subordinate keys

2005-03-27 Thread John Harrold
Hello, I've been signing my emails with my gpg key (F65A739E) at least that is what mutt says. However, when it's sent it appears to be signed with a sub key (B23241CB). Can someone explain the purpose of subordinate keys and what I'm doing wrong? - pub 1024D/F65A7