On Mon, 24 Feb 2014, Ian Jackson wrote: > It can increase security because it can make operations more > convenient at the same level of security, and because people trade off > convenience for security. > > For example, it would be possible to have one key for email encryption > and a different (more secure) key for package uploads.
This is already possible with subkeys. That said subkeys of a 1024 bits master key can't really be trusted, even if they are bigger. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Discover the Debian Administrator's Handbook: → http://debian-handbook.info/get/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20140224193700.ga15...@x230-buxy.home.ouaza.com
