How to import a secret subkey?

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Wed Jun 22 08:08:29 CEST 2005


On Tue, 21 Jun 2005 09:11:51 -0400, David Shaw said:

> You can't.  GnuPG does not currently support merging secret subkeys.
> To do it, you need to delete the secret key on the second machine and
> re-import the whole key.

We might however add this soon.  IIRC most code is already there as we
do something similar with card backup keys.  Won't go into 1.4.2
though.  At least not offically because it is "strings-frozen" to
allow for proper and complete translations.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner




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