Re: different passwords for subkeys of the same masterkey

2015-01-21 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On Wed 2015-01-21 05:58:40 -0500, s7r wrote: Understood. I guess this has to be done via console commands, since the pour enigmail thundebird addon has very limited options when creating/editing a GPG key. yes, what you're trying to do is rather unusual; enigmail intends to deliver a smooth

Re: different passwords for subkeys of the same masterkey

2015-01-21 Thread Werner Koch
On Wed, 21 Jan 2015 11:58, s...@sky-ip.org said: I have 2 masterkeys, each with a subkey. Any way I can merge them together so I would have one primary key and 3 subkeys? With 2.1 this is quite some work. With 2.1 it is easier. Here is an example. First list the key with the subkey you

Re: different passwords for subkeys of the same masterkey

2015-01-21 Thread s7r
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Thank you very much for your reply. Please see my comments below in the replied text: On 1/21/2015 4:36 AM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: On Mon 2015-01-12 10:13:48 -0500, s7r wrote: Is it possible to have one masterkey with two subkeys (sbind),

Re: different passwords for subkeys of the same masterkey

2015-01-20 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On Mon 2015-01-12 10:13:48 -0500, s7r wrote: Is it possible to have one masterkey with two subkeys (sbind), one for encrypt only and one for sign only, and each of them to have different passphrases? Yes, it is possible. with gpg 2.1, you can create new subkeys and give each of them a

Re: Different passwords for subkeys

2014-07-18 Thread Deacon Symeon
On 07/16/2014 09:24 PM, Phillip Susi wrote: I would like to protect the master key with a password that is different from that used on the daily use subkey I take the Low Road and use two different key rings, the master key ring in a non-default location (gpg --homedir /path/to/master ...).

Re: Different passwords for subkeys

2014-07-17 Thread flapflap
Phillip Susi: I keep a subkey pair for daily use that I keep a copy of on my work machine, and reissue each yea and the master key only at home. I would like to protect the master key with a password that is different from that used on the daily use subkey, but when I use --edit-key and

Re: Different passwords for subkeys

2014-07-17 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi On Thursday 17 July 2014 at 9:44:15 AM, in mid:53c78cdf.1070...@riseup.net, flapflap wrote: in short: use gpgsplit to split the key, then import one part, set passphrase A, export it (encrypted with A), delete it, then import the other

Re: Different passwords for subkeys

2014-07-17 Thread Hauke Laging
Am Do 17.07.2014, 23:39:53 schrieb MFPA: in short: use gpgsplit to split the key, then import one part, set passphrase A, export it (encrypted with A), delete it, then import the other part, set passphrase B. Do you actually need gpgsplit to achieve this? I thought you could achieve

Different passwords for subkeys

2014-07-16 Thread Phillip Susi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 I keep a subkey pair for daily use that I keep a copy of on my work machine, and reissue each yea and the master key only at home. I would like to protect the master key with a password that is different from that used on the daily use subkey, but