Re: Trying to understand the bond between master and subordinal key pairs

2014-02-12 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 02/12/2014 06:40 AM, Michael Anders wrote: > I am still puzzled, however. Can anyone explain the logical reason as to > why we need this jungle in OpenPGP, which thankworthily is usually more > or less hidden from the user anyways? > A good reason would help the complicated workings to stick w

Trying to understand the bond between master and subordinal key pairs

2014-02-12 Thread Michael Anders
On Wed, 2014-02-12 at 11:38 +0100, gnupg-users-requ...@gnupg.org wrote: > Am Mi 12.02.2014, 07:02:51 schrieb Faru Guredo: > > > This is suggested???as far as I understand???in order to keep > > the original master key for signing in a secret place, because > master > > signing key = my genuine ide