On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 07:55:57AM +0200, Werner Koch wrote: >> Well, does OpenPGP specify at all which subkeys to encrypt to? Is there a >> good reason why GnuPG simply can't encrypt to both by default? > No. Why only to both ot them? There are often more than just 2 > non-expired encryption keys.
Well, s/both/all/. What is the disadvantage, if any? > For sure that is not a bug. Using the latest valid encryption subkey > is what almost everyone would expect. Anything elese does not make > much sense. Does it make much more sense having multiple subkeys, but in reality only use one of them? I'm not sure if I catch the logic here :-) > Whether something is a card key or a gpg-agent controlled > key or a plain disk stored key or a PGP 8 key or ... is not visible to > a someone going to encrypt to a key. Yes, that is _exactly_ my point, and which is why it should encrypt to all available subkeys by default :-) /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
