Chris De Young wrote the following on 6/10/08 1:41 PM: >> it must be defined at the moment of creating the key. And that is the >> reason to use "key pairs", because a singe key can't do both functions. > > "Key pair" in most contexts actually refers to the set of > public key + private key, not to key + subkey(s) -- at least that seems to be > the common usage from what I've seen. > > Cheers, > -C
Chris, Precisely, that's how it is defined and explained in PGP and OpenPGP related documentation sites. Charly _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
