Re: [Evolution] Public key vs. sub-key



on. den 23. 03. 2016 klokka 19.24 (+0100) skreiv Tom:
Am Mittwoch, den 23.03.2016, 19:02 +0100 schrieb Stig Roar Wangberg:
on. den 23. 03. 2016 klokka 08.14 (+0100) skreiv Milan Crha:
On Tue, 2016-03-22 at 20:10 +0100, Stig Roar Wangberg wrote:
I'm trying (again) to send a crypted message, but I get the message that
Evolution is using sub-key instead of publi key. How can I change this,
please?

  Hi,
the evolution only calls either gpg2 or gpg binary with some arguments
and that's all. If you make the default behaviour of the gpg2 or gpg
use public keys, not subkeys, then you'll make it working for the
evolution too. Though I do not understand what is wrong with the
subkey. I'd expect that gpg2/gpg knows well why it chose the subkey,
instead of the public key (well, "public key", they both are public,
when it's a subkey of the public key, no?).
  Bye,
  Milan

How exactly do I make it default? Please? Do I do it in the terminal, or
are the settings to be found here in Evolution, please?

GnuPG actually uses a signing-only key as the master key, and creates an
encryption subkey automatically. Without a subkey for encryption, you
can't have encrypted e-mails with GnuPG at all...
(found at https://wiki.debian.org/Subkeys)

OK, thanks a lot! I understand. On my other laptop, I don't have this
problem. No problems encrypting and/or signing e-mails. Here, on this
laptop, I have problems sending encrypted e-mails. But I can't find out
why.

Stig

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