how to select a subkey

[Charly Avital]

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Henk M. de Bruijn wrote the following on 9/6/05 8:48 AM:
| Hi all,
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| Forgive my ignorance but how do I select a subkey?
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| TIA

I take it that you mean an additional subkey.

$ gpg --edit-key [key ID]
Command> addkey
Key is protected.

You need a passphrase to unlock the secret key for
user: [you and the key you have selected]
[type the passphrase for that key]

Please select what kind of key you want:
~   (2) DSA (sign only)
~   (4) Elgamal (encrypt only)
~   (5) RSA (sign only)
~   (6) RSA (encrypt only)
Your selection?

If you want the additional subkey for sign only, your choice of DSA or
RSA may be conditioned to the fact that if you want or need a "large"
size (>1024) then you have to go for RSA. If you generate a RSA subkey
of e.g. 2048, then you can use, if you want SHA256 i/o SHA1.

Etc...
Charly


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