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Re: OpenPGP Sub Keys

2003-06-16 02:57:59

On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 09:18:09 +0100, Ian Brown said:

This would stop people keeping their master signing key on a more secure
offline machine, and using it to sign shorter-lifetime signing subkeys
which can be used on a day-to-day basis to sign messages :(

That is exactly what I would like to do.  Today I still use a separate
certification key but it is a problem WoT wise and annoying to tell
people how to send me encrypted mail, because they usually have
problems with the sign-only certification key.


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