gpg-agent question

Todd Freedom_Lover at pobox.com
Fri Dec 12 13:48:50 CET 2003


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David Shaw wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 12:52:26PM -0500, Todd wrote:
[...]
>> Just out of curiosity, is this to allow for some future version of
>> gnupg that will allow you to have a different passphrase on a subkey
>> than you have on the primary key?
>
> What future version?  You can do that today ;)

D'oh!  I think when I tried to do this a while back, I forgot to use
the key command to specify that I wanted to work with the subkey, so I
assumed that I couldn't have a separate passphrase for the subkey.
That is all there is to it, right?

Thanks for setting me straight yet again David!

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