Jean-David Beyer wrote: > John W. Moore III wrote: >> David Shaw wrote: >>>> On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 02:49:21PM -0400, Jean-David Beyer wrote: >>>>> My gnupg file that I get with edit-keys myuid >>>>> contains, among other things: >>>>> >>>>> sub 2048g/48FF0850 created: 2007-02-24 expires: 2008-02-24 >>>>> sub 4096g/124E0663 created: 2007-06-17 expires: 2009-06-16 >>>>> >>>>> How do I know which key is used when sending e-mail? >>>>> Or is this a Thunderbird question? >>>> GnuPG picks the subkey for you unless explicitly told which one to >>>> use. In the above case, it would pick the second key, as it is more >>>> recent. > >> However, 'Account Settings' within Thunderbird does allow You to select >> which Key to use _if_ Enigmail is also Installed. > > It allows me to pick the key, but not the sub-key, unless I am missing > something.
Subkeys may be explicitly specified by appending an exclamation mark (!) suffix; eg, 0x124E0663! This flag tells GnuPG to use the specified primary or secondary key and not to try and calculate which primary or secondary key to use. -- John P. Clizbe Inet: John (a) Mozilla-Enigmail.org You can't spell fiasco without SCO. PGP/GPG KeyID: 0x608D2A10/0x18BB373A "what's the key to success?" / "two words: good decisions." "what's the key to good decisions?" / "one word: experience." "how do i get experience?" / "two words: bad decisions." "Just how do the residents of Haiku, Hawai'i hold conversations?"
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