Hello all I have a question, which maybe is very silly. Most likely I don't get the concept behind subkeys. Unfortunately I couldn't find any information about all this in the available documents.
I was playing around with my brand new SmartCard. Thinking about putting *additional* signing, encrypting and authorization keys on it, based on my already used [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fortunately I made a backup before I began playing with my secret keyring. :) Problem is as follows: It seems gnupg uses the last created key as the default key to use. So if I want to sign something gpg asks me to enter the smart card. Similar with encryption. Instead of the 2048bit-Key I created once, the new 1024 Key on the smardcard is used. So I can't decrypt the new documents without the smartcard. So, my question is: How do I set the default keys to use? Especially if I make my new subkeys public. How do the people know which encryption subkey to use? How can I set the key to use for encryption (if I encrypt things for myself, or for the encrypt-to-Option.) Or in other words: Is there somewhere a really detailed documentation about using and managing subkeys? Thanks for any help! -- cu --== Jerri ==-- Homepage: http://www.jerri.de/ ICQ: 54160208 Public PGP Key: http://www.jerri.de/jerris_public_key.asc
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