Robert D. wrote: > When I used gen-key, I got one, but at the end was told that I'd need to > generate a sub-key that I could use to actually encrypt.
GnuPG uses "key pair" in two distinct senses. One of them means a public/private pair; and the other means two sets of public/private keys, one set used for encryption and one set used for signing. To disambiguate, I'll refer to the latter as a key set, and a public/private combination as a key pair. By default, GnuPG only creates key sets for DSA/Elgamal keys. It creates a DSA key pair for signing and an Elgamal key pair for encryption. For RSA keys, GnuPG only creates a single key pair--a signing pair. gpg --edit-key <key ID> addkey <enter your passphrase> 6 <enter desired key size> ... and so on, and so on, and you'll have an encryption key pair added to your signing key pair, making it a completely usable key set. _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
