Migrating keys (fwd)

David Shaw dshaw at jabberwocky.com
Thu Nov 27 15:56:45 CET 2003


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On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 12:34:36PM -0800, Atom 'Smasher' wrote:

> but, if i sign your key, and you add a sub-key, that carries my
> signature, just the same as your original key that i signed... my
> understanding of PGP/GPG is that it's easy to "go back in time" and
> add a sub-key, so it would appear that the sub-key was also signed.

No.  If you sign my key, you sign my primary key plus a user ID.
**I** sign my subkeys.  You do not sign them.

David
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