Re: changing usage flags on a primary key

2010-11-10 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Wed, 2010-11-10 at 14:58 -0500, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > hrm, even if i can do this, it probably isn't very convincing for most > people following gnupg-users :( It was suggested before, to ad such functionality, but declined IIRC. > > Have a look the the archive, it was mentioned before h

Re: changing usage flags on a primary key

2010-11-10 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 11/10/2010 12:53 PM, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > That's fairly easy by hacking the code and resigning. hrm, even if i can do this, it probably isn't very convincing for most people following gnupg-users :( > Have a look the the archive, it was mentioned before how it works. do you have

Re: changing usage flags on a primary key

2010-11-10 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi. That's fairly easy by hacking the code and resigning. Have a look the the archive, it was mentioned before how it works. Cheers, Chris. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http

Re: changing usage flags on a primary key

2010-11-10 Thread Werner Koch
On Tue, 9 Nov 2010 22:41, d...@fifthhorseman.net said: > Basically, i'm asking about creating a new self-sig packet with a > modified key usage flags subpacket on a key that i control. How would i > do that with GnuPG? That is not supported by an option. You need to change the code. I would t

changing usage flags on a primary key

2010-11-09 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Hi GnuPG Folks-- Let's say i have an OpenPGP primary key with usage flags ECSA set (some keys like this have been known to be generated by GUI tools). Say i wanted to convert this key into a decent primary key with a reasonable/standard set of usage flags (e.g. CS or just C); is this something i