On Jan 16, 2015, at 7:56 AM, Salih Kardan <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > I have two simple questions about subkey mechanism. I search gnupg > documentations and mailing list, but could not find answers to my questions. > I would be so glad, if someone can answer below questions. > > 1) Is it possible to create a subkey of a subkey ?
No. Primary keys own/parent subkeys. There is no nesting beyond that. > 2) What are the trust implications between a parent key and a child key? Is > it "Ultimate Trust"? How can we confirm this? Or is this something for us to > determine/interpret? It's not really something that needs interpretation or calculation. Essentially you trust a subkey exactly the same way you trust the parent key for that subkey. The interpretation and calculation is done for the parent key. David _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
