Re: Several master keys vs. master key ,and subkeys

2013-07-16 Thread Sin Trenton
On 2013-07-16 15:32, Werner Koch wrote: You have a version B of your key, with a different password than version A (where the primary key is still present)? Not that one particular subkey per se has a different password? Usually this does not happen because GnuPG < 2.1 has no feature to merge

Re: Several master keys vs. master key ,and subkeys

2013-07-16 Thread Werner Koch
On Tue, 16 Jul 2013 12:21, biggles.tren...@gmail.com said: > A GnuPG key has a private key and a public key. When you first create All public key algorithms work with the concept of a keypair. GnuPG does the same. This is the low level maths. To make it usable we need to bind mail addresses to

Re: Several master keys vs. master key and subkeys

2013-07-16 Thread Philipp Schafft
reflum, On Tue, 2013-07-16 at 07:16 +0800, Martin wrote: > * I find them Confusing. So what's the point here? If he doesn't yet the concept it doesn't mean it is bad. It's just a statement about him, not the standard. e.g. I haven't got the concept of armoured concrete, yet I life in a house buil

Re: Several master keys vs. master key ,and subkeys

2013-07-16 Thread Sin Trenton
On 2013-07-16 10:52, gnupg-users-requ...@gnupg.org wrote: Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 10:09:38 +0200 > From: Werner Koch > To: Martin > Cc: gnupg-users@gnupg.org Subject: Re: Several master keys vs. master key and subkeys > Message-ID: <87k3krj58d@vigenere.g1

Re: Several master keys vs. master key and subkeys

2013-07-16 Thread Werner Koch
On Tue, 16 Jul 2013 01:16, martin.brochh...@gmail.com said: > This person claims that subkeys are not the best option because: > > ### QUOTE ### > > Disadvantages of subkeys: > > * I find them Confusing. They mandotory part of the standard and solve the problem of having separate keys for separat

Several master keys vs. master key and subkeys

2013-07-15 Thread Martin
Hi everyone, really sorry to ask so many stupid questions. I'm planning to write a nice howto guide when I finally figured everything out, but before I can do that I need to know what I am talking about :) I want to have one master key with a super strong passphrase, which will never expire and w