On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 08:08:35PM +1000, Felipe Alvarez wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 12:10 AM, David Shaw wrote:
> >> What do the letters to the right of the words "usage" mean? (S,C,A,E) I
> >> can only guess |S|ign, |E|ncrypt,
> >
> > (S)ign: sign some data (like a file)
> > (C)ertify:
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA256
Felipe Alvarez escribió:
> On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 12:10 AM, David Shaw wrote:
>>> What do the letters to the right of the words "usage" mean? (S,C,A,E) I
>>> can only guess |S|ign, |E|ncrypt,
>> (S)ign: sign some data (like a file)
>> (C)ertify
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 12:10 AM, David Shaw wrote:
>> What do the letters to the right of the words "usage" mean? (S,C,A,E) I
>> can only guess |S|ign, |E|ncrypt,
>
> (S)ign: sign some data (like a file)
> (C)ertify: sign a key (this is called certification)
> (A)uthenticate: authenticate you
On Thursday, March 05, 2009, at 10:14AM, "gerry_lowry (alliston ontario
canada)" wrote:
>David Shaw wrote, in part:
>
>You can have one subkey for encryption, one subkey for signing, and
>leave your primary key for certification.
>
>This lets you do tricks like keeping your primary
On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 12:14:24PM -0500, gerry_lowry (alliston ontario canada)
wrote:
> David Shaw wrote, in part:
>
> You can have one subkey for encryption, one subkey for signing, and
> leave your primary key for certification.
>
> This lets you do tricks like keeping your prima
David Shaw wrote, in part:
You can have one subkey for encryption, one subkey for signing, and
leave your primary key for certification.
This lets you do tricks like keeping your primary key offline.
This is useful as the primary key is the most "valuable" key (since it can
mak
On Mar 5, 2009, at 4:22 AM, Felipe Alvarez wrote:
Me again. Sorry to sound newbish. I've googled, but I haven't found
anything quite as detailed enough for me to grasp the 'whole
forest' (so to speak). My question is regarding 'subkeys.' Let me
know if I am getting the wording/terminology
Me again. Sorry to sound newbish. I've googled, but I haven't found anything
quite as detailed enough for me to grasp the 'whole forest' (so to speak).
My question is regarding 'subkeys.' Let me know if I am getting the
wording/terminology incorrect.
I understand that when I 'gen-key' I create a '
