Info on sub keys?

2006-06-03 Thread Felix E. Klee
I've a couple of newbee questions concerning sub keys: * Aside from convenience, is there any difference between a sub key and an ordinary key signed with the master key? * Can such an ordinary key be transformed into a sub key? * Since when (date and version) does PGP and since when does

Re: Info on sub keys?

2006-06-03 Thread Felix E. Klee
At Sun, 04 Jun 2006 03:02:19 +0930, Alphax wrote: A subkey cannot issue a certification signature - at least not in any known implementations. Right, I read about that before. PGP 8 supports signing subkeys; no other offical version of PGP before then does. According to Tom McCune's FAQ