On Saturday 23 December 2006 20:50, Robert J. Hansen wrote: > I hate to sound like an arrogant son-of-a-so-and-so, but it sounds like > you're attempting to do complex things with OpenPGP without > understanding OpenPGP very well.
probably, but that doesnt really matter to me much ... all the intricacies of pgp do not interrest me, it's merely a tool to get other things done > My suggestion: figure out exactly what you need it to do and send it on > to the list. If you need more than one sentence to do it, you may not > understand your basic problem very well. i have a personal key/uid i use for signing e-mails and such, E837F581. when doing gpg signing parties, this is what other people sign. in Gentoo, rather than using personal keys, we create a new key to keep personal and developer package signing separate. historically, i would just create a new key/uid (for example, the last one i was using was CC2BD2F2). then i would sign that with ultimate trust using my personal key. this time around, i thought i'd be lazy and just create a subkey off of E837F581 since it seemed to be a bit quicker (205D3103). then i noticed that even though i told some programs to use E837F581 to do signing, they'd turn around and use the subkey 205D3103, thus this e-mail chain ive started. -mike
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