Re: Why Signing key part of Master key

2019-02-25 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On Sun 2019-02-24 19:53:53 +, Farhan Khan via Gnupg-users wrote: > I was under the impression that best practice was to keep the master > key offline in cold storage. "best practice" for some is "unusable complexity" for others :) If it works for you, it's probably not unreasonable to keep the

Re: Why Signing key part of Master key

2019-02-24 Thread Kristian Fiskerstrand
On 2/24/19 8:34 PM, Farhan Khan via Gnupg-users wrote: > Hi all, > > I am still working on setting up the "perfect" setup. When I created the > master, it was [SC]. I > question, why is the signing key part of the master key? Why not have it be a > subkey? Almost > everywhere I looked, the two w

Re: Why Signing key part of Master key

2019-02-24 Thread Farhan Khan via Gnupg-users
February 24, 2019 2:39 PM, "Kristian Fiskerstrand" wrote: > On 2/24/19 8:34 PM, Farhan Khan via Gnupg-users wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I am still working on setting up the "perfect" setup. When I created the >> master, it was [SC]. I >> question, why is the signing key part of the master key?

Re: Why Signing key part of Master key

2019-02-24 Thread Michał Górny
On Sun, 2019-02-24 at 19:34 +, Farhan Khan via Gnupg-users wrote: > Hi all, > > I am still working on setting up the "perfect" setup. When I created the > master, it was [SC]. I > question, why is the signing key part of the master key? Why not have it be a > subkey? Almost > everywhere I lo

Why Signing key part of Master key

2019-02-24 Thread Farhan Khan via Gnupg-users
Hi all, I am still working on setting up the "perfect" setup. When I created the master, it was [SC]. I question, why is the signing key part of the master key? Why not have it be a subkey? Almost everywhere I looked, the two were a single key except this site (http://openpgpblog.tumblr.com/post