How to use an "offline" primary key

2010-01-02 Thread Sven Radde
Hello GnuPG-Users! With a new year comes a new keypair and this time I tried to use subkeys to separate my secret primary key from the "day-to-day" encryption/signing keys. Using options "--no-default-keyrings --secret-keyring secring2.gpg --public-keyring pubring2.gpg" I generated the primary ke

Re: How to use an "offline" primary key

2010-01-04 Thread Peter Lebbing
Sven Radde wrote: > I thought that I would simply 'include' the primary key by adding > "--secret-keyring secring2.gpg" whenever I need it for these kinds of > operations, but GnuPG complains about missing parts of the secret key > regardless of whether this option is present of not. AFAIK, GnuPG

Re: How to use an "offline" primary key

2010-01-04 Thread M.B.Jr.
Hi list, I wish a great 2010 year for everybody! On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Sven Radde wrote: > Hello GnuPG-Users! > > With a new year comes a new keypair and this time I tried to use subkeys > to separate my secret primary key from the "day-to-day" > encryption/signing keys. Concerning

Re: How to use an "offline" primary key

2010-01-04 Thread Sven Radde
Hi! Peter Lebbing schrieb: > By exchanging the order of the keyrings, hopefully this will mean it looks for > the key in secring2.gpg first, where the primary key is included too. Works fine for certifying other people's keys, thank you! However, since all updates to the my key would be done to