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On 06/10/13 17:21, Philip Hudson wrote: > Where can I get a clue about subkeys? About the best summary page I came across in a prior anti-NSA-inspired cluehunting was: https://wiki.debian.org/subkeys Note it's also easy to get tangled up with the related but separate concept of signing and encryption keys, where you maintain: - a keypair for encrypting a hash of a message *you* send with the private part of the key such that anyone can decrypt it with the public part of the key and verify the hash is the same (= proof of sender) - another keypair where the public part is used by others to encrypt messages *to* you (obscuring the message such that only you can decrypt it with the private part). This page says it perhaps more clearly: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/454048/what-is-the-difference-between-encrypting-and-signing-in-asymmetric-encryption Cheers, Mike. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq