From Masterkey to subkey

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Tue Mar 7 19:21:25 CET 2017


On Tue,  7 Mar 2017 09:40, billdangerous at gmail.com said:

> I would like first to be sure that this process of migrating a master key
> to subkey is reliable ? Am I not breaking something, that I am going to
> regret ?

Please see the other comments.

> Is there a way (even if hacking gpg code is needed), to change those subkey
> flags ?

With 2.1 it is easy:

  gpg --edit-key  THEKEY
  gpg> key N
  gpg> change-usage

and follow the prompt.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner


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