hey pete, Pete Stephenson: > On 6/5/2014 10:44 AM, Werner Koch wrote: >> On Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:15, [email protected] said: >> >>> how can i mandatorily specify using other subkeys for the same primary >>> key for 's' or 'e' either on command line or in an email client for >>> example ? >> >> fortune | gpg -ea -r '12345678!' >> >> assuming 12345678 is the subkeys' keyid. Same for -u. > > To clarify, it's the exclamation point ("!") that forces GPG to use a > specific key. Normally GPG will pick what it thinks is the appropriate > key, but the exclamation point will override that automatic choice and > use only the key ID specified by the user.
cheers couldn't resist ;-) > > I'm not aware of any email clients that allow such an override -- it's > typically only used in the command line. > > <https://www.gnupg.org/documentation/manuals/gnupg-devel/Specify-a-User-ID.html> > has some more details. > >>> is there a reference for the numerical values of version, hash, cipher, >>> algo, sk2, etc ? >> >> --list-packets is a debugging aid and thus you need to look at the >> source or doc/DETAILS for some of these values. However, most of these >> numbers are specified in RFC-4880. > > Specifically, that information is available at > <http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4880#page-62>, in sections 9.1 through > 9.4, inclusive. > > Cheers! > -Pete > > _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
