On 07/12/14 21:16, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: > On 12/07/2014 10:11 PM, Doug Barton wrote: >> On 12/7/14 7:04 AM, Tomo Ruby wrote: | I wanted to create new keys >> and came across the following | "problem": If I create a main key >> to certify and subkeys for | everything else, won't there be dozens >> of subkeys on my main key | after years of creating and revoking >> subkeys?? > >> Why do you believe that you will be creating and revoking so many >> subkeys? > > > Easiest example of this would probably be per-device signing keys and > cellphone substitution. Although in my experience the number of > subkeys are increasing more due to expiration of encryption subkeys > and key rotation. > > Tomo: you'll find that my key have a few subkeys at least due to these > practises. It doesn't provide any issue for either keyservers or to > use more generally, but you are correct in that the information is > retained. > > > _______________________________________________ > Gnupg-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users >
Stupid question inbound:- If you make a bunch of subkeys, say, one for your phone, one for your desktop and one for your laptop, how does that work? I would assume if I send a piece of encrypted data to your laptop's subkey's public key and you were on your desktop, you'd have to go to your laptop to decrypt it, wouldn't you? Or am I missing something? _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
