[Gpg4win-users-en] Subkey generation: kleopatra vs. commandline

[Werner Koch]

On Wed, 12 Feb 2014 09:50, fabian.nick at scai.fraunhofer.de said:

> does that mean that the keypair created with kleopatra (which has no subkey) can (or should?!) only be used for signing?

Kleopatra should have created a subkey.  However, it might be possible
to use non-default key parameters which may lead to just one key.  I
have not checked because I do not use Kleopatra myself.  GPA, the other
key manager, has options to create sign-only keys.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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