On Apr 29, 2011, at 2:56 PM, Ted Zatopek wrote: > > Is it possible to have multiple private keys in use on the same keyring? > > We have a GPG installation on two different boxes (with one private key in > use on each) and both boxes have reached end of life and need to be > decomissioned. > > We use GPG to encrypt files that we put to the seperate customer FTP sites. > They decrypt the files and process them. > > We created a different private\public key combination for each box. Each > box also has a customer specific public key that we've imported into the > keyring. > > We are centralizing our FTP transmissions to one new box. > > It looks to me that it's possible to have two private keys in use on the > same keyring and that you can specify which key to use when you are > encrypting by using the "-user" switch in your encryption command. > > Is that the way it works or am I barking up the wrong tree here? Maybe I'm > missing something fundamental?
Nope, that's exactly how it works. Note that the option is "--local-user" (or "-u"), and not "--user" though. David _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
