Re: Confused about Sub keys.

Was this a joke or was i ment to acutally take something from that? ... or was it never leave your subkeys laying around? :P On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 16:24 -0400, Scott Lambdin wrote: > Good example of why you need subkeys. > > http://www.wsbtv.com/news/15847652/detail.html > > > On 6/9/08, Sim

Re: Confused about Sub keys.

Good example of why you need subkeys. http://www.wsbtv.com/news/15847652/detail.html On 6/9/08, Simon Dwyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > I am new to all this and have been alot of reading. > > One thing i cant get my head around is subkeys. I have generated a sub > key with

Re: Confused about Sub keys.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris De Young escribió: >> it must be defined at the moment of creating the key. And that is the >> reason to use "key pairs", because a singe key can't do both functions. > > "Key pair" in most contexts actually refers to the set of > public key + p

Re: Confused about Sub keys.

Simon Dwyer wrote the following on 6/10/08 6:38 PM: > Yes i made a bit of a mess when first setting up my account. The two > revoked keys are ones i got confused with and wanted to start from > scratch. The one that isnt revoked is my good key that i am using now. > > 9DA5B32F is my key that i w

Re: Confused about Sub keys.

Yes i made a bit of a mess when first setting up my account. The two revoked keys are ones i got confused with and wanted to start from scratch. The one that isnt revoked is my good key that i am using now. 9DA5B32F is my key that i will be using from now on. Thanks for the reply guys, Simon D

Re: Confused about Sub keys.

Faramir wrote: > Well, I made a mistake again... but the manual in that URL doesn't > show RSA keys... and when I executed the command gpg --gen-key I get > the following options: Typing something into GnuPG and learning what it does is great: it teaches you that GnuPG tends to create different k

Re: Confused about Sub keys.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Faramir wrote: > Well, I made a mistake again... but the manual in that URL doesn't > show RSA keys... and when I executed the command gpg --gen-key I get the > following options: > > (1) DSA and ElGamal (default) > (2) DSA (sign only) > (5) RSA

Re: Confused about Sub keys.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Charly Avital escribió: > Faramir wrote the following on 6/10/08 12:17 AM: > [...] > >> And that is the >> reason to use "key pairs", because a singe key can't do both functions. > > The above statement is not accurate. > > A careful reading of

Re: Confused about Sub keys.

Chris De Young wrote the following on 6/10/08 1:41 PM: >> it must be defined at the moment of creating the key. And that is the >> reason to use "key pairs", because a singe key can't do both functions. > > "Key pair" in most contexts actually refers to the set of > public key + private key, not t

Re: Confused about Sub keys.

it must be defined at the moment of creating the key. And that is the reason to use "key pairs", because a singe key can't do both functions. "Key pair" in most contexts actually refers to the set of public key + private key, not to key + subkey(s) -- at least that seems to be the common usage

Re: Confused about Sub keys.

Faramir wrote the following on 6/10/08 12:17 AM: [...] > And that is the > reason to use "key pairs", because a singe key can't do both functions. The above statement is not accurate. A careful reading of is recommended. This is the Spanish versio

Re: Confused about Sub keys.

Faramir wrote the following on 6/10/08 12:17 AM: [...] > And that is the > reason to use "key pairs", because a singe key can't do both functions. The above statement is not accurate. A careful reading of is recommended. This is the Spanish versio

Re: Confused about Sub keys.

That does make more sense. Still a very confusing topic. From what i gather the fact that my emails are being signed and everything seems to be working i will not worry about it too much. Hope this post helps others that come looking later with the same question. Thanks Faramir, Simon On Tue

Re: Confused about Sub keys.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Simon Dwyer escribió: > Hi everyone, > > I am new to all this and have been alot of reading. > > One thing i cant get my head around is subkeys. I have generated a sub > key with my master key and i undestand that. All the commands and thing > i h

Confused about Sub keys.

Hi everyone, I am new to all this and have been alot of reading. One thing i cant get my head around is subkeys. I have generated a sub key with my master key and i undestand that. All the commands and thing i have been doing i have been using my master keys id... should i be actively using my