-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 12/08/2014 04:28 PM, gnupgpacker wrote: > Hello, > >> -----Original Message----- From: Kristian Fiskerstrand Sent: >> Monday, December 08, 2014 12:44 PM >> >>> Main key has options SC. There is an active newer signing key >>> S, so this will be always used for signing? >> Correct > > Why has the mainkey SC if signing is not used? Are there some > compatibility reasons? >
This key will always be capable of signing by definition, but the reason it is not C only is that it was not generated with a signing subkey from the point of key generation, and the difference does not make any practical difference. Changing this would require a new self-signature limiting the use flags, but this is not worthwhile to do. - -- - ---------------------------- Kristian Fiskerstrand Blog: http://blog.sumptuouscapital.com Twitter: @krifisk - ---------------------------- Public OpenPGP key 0xE3EDFAE3 at hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net fpr:94CB AFDD 3034 5109 5618 35AA 0B7F 8B60 E3ED FAE3 - ---------------------------- Veni vidi velcro I came, I saw, I got stuck -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJUhcWuAAoJEPw7F94F4TagYLoP+gK2l0QIsiO22z8zkcWNVkDN lPl2nWRdeUqPX+gfw2qNmum1wKKzBStyeqO9qat/UMXnM3n0tWHasFDhblTdWA02 bD6BGbp3dDFrDpGyupAe/LEmwHmEN8ey1RaiH/I/N167NwhQ0yOIiivLuwPVC1xG b7tKmCHhNW//XJCquHq/je0EAp8xIjlBB1u4EzDP9f809L2yFNuUf/g7S43oeI7e jEK8qPaLyrDo47yPfdKI7etCWN+lDqy2J2XpqkERtzOGqKPFbmfBuFT3l0fQ20V1 g8u390YCzscG0RjwQQj69HyIWXwCavRywc0EIleseJjlFMbjB45LmJAro5rKV0FH a5DLA3Lh5FRd417MMy+Fo07bZIt5XJ/TJzD0uyTl97pgqbrFgKW9jjkCJ9vWBvuN K9lfRe67O7EKLv11RFMo30RNl6XXY7lBZPI+XdUEz4QGSKKdfFdH04p24U6OOxaS aUKEGAQ2oNyhjD/fVR2prxbBZcShjz3N3gbytr9f/xmemPDQvWDRZdEAeRQdAMRr nrN3fXCo/7aX2u66RxeTO1dM3eGky72rZKTKRhNL0B7V4JDylZjzy8AA4aahqzW5 /zWLPxPQMCnQohGWQlDHoTNGnWXn5/ZxcGnSd09sqsNBf8yDFxSHwgd6L6qzlDxj UxdkJC1hWUDtH/Wn4yLI =kD/3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
