Re: Trying to understand the bond between master and subordinate key pairs

2014-02-12 Thread Hauke Laging
Am Mi 12.02.2014, 07:02:51 schrieb Faru Guredo: > This is suggested — as far as I understand — in order to keep > the original master key for signing in a secret place, because master > signing key = my genuine identity. But. Signing (data) is not the relevant aspect of a mainkey. Certification

Re: Trying to understand the bond between master and subordinate key pairs

2014-02-12 Thread Pete Stephenson
On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 4:02 AM, Faru Guredo wrote: > I’ve read GNU Privacy Handbook, the FAQ and thought I understood the purpose > of all four keys initially generated with --gen-keys. > But then I found this https://wiki.debian.org/subkeys and lost it. > > tl;dr: There is suggested backup of ~/

Trying to understand the bond between master and subordinate key pairs

2014-02-12 Thread Faru Guredo
I’ve read GNU Privacy Handbook, the FAQ and thought I understood the purpose of all four keys initially generated with --gen-keys. But then I found this https://wiki.debian.org/subkeys and lost it. tl;dr: There is suggested backup of ~/.gnupg, creation of a new pair of subkeys for signing, then al