Re: Newbie question: GnuPG and PGP

[L. S. <ra...@qu...>]

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On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, Frank Tobin wrote:

>     Werner, what benefit is there to displaying the keyid for a
>     subkey?
>
> I'm not Werner, but i can answer your question.  Remember, most OpenPGP
> keys are two keys: the primary (for signing), and the subkey (for
> encryption).  Keys are allowed to have multiple subkeys, meaning you can
> encrypt to any one of the subkeys.  Hence, these must be uniquely
> identifiable, and hence, we have subkey id's.
>
> Reminds me that I have to put this feature into pgpenvelope...

Thank you. Not having that in pgpenvelope has been driving me nuts for
some time.

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L. Sassaman

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