Re: [Evolution] GPG in v1.0.5

[n3ro <n3r10 yahoo de>]

Hi Jason,


On Sun, 2003-06-29 at 16:38, Jason Tackaberry wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-06-29 at 06:43, n3ro wrote:
> > I want to sign with otherones private keys!
>
> Presumably "otherone" is you and not someone else in your family or
> something.  Otherwise using their secret key without their knowledge is
> unethical.  And using their secret key with their knowledge is probably
> not recommended.
yes, this is my box and those 2 are _my_ accounts.
The one is for work and the  otherone is private and so i have set up 2
keyrings.

> > I have to private rings basically and want to use both for signing out
> > of _one_ account.
>
> There is nothing complicated about this if you've read (and understood,
> at least) the gpg man page.  You can export the secret key for the
> "otherone" account by doing gpg -a --export-secret-key >
> /tmp/otherone_secretkey.asc
>
> Then as your regular account, do
>
> gpg --import /tmp/otherone_secretkey.asc
>
> Don't forget to delete /tmp/otherone_secretkey.asc
>
> gpg will default to the first secret key on your keyring for signing
> operations, but I expect that's the desired behaviour for you.  You
> should read through the gpg man page to see how you can use otherone's
> key for signing.

thanks for that hint, i read the pages and started with subkeys, which
failed when i sent a encrypted msg.

I'll try your approach, thanks
n3ro


> Cheers,
> Jason.
>
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