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Why a subkey?
\ Mike - EMAIL IGNORED (24 Feb 2007)
. \ Robert J. Hansen (24 Feb 2007)
. . \ Sven Radde (26 Feb 2007)
. \ Mike - EMAIL IGNORED (24 Feb 2007)
. \ Mike - EMAIL IGNORED (26 Feb 2007)
. \ Mike - EMAIL IGNORED (27 Feb 2007)
. . \ Robert J. Hansen (27 Feb 2007)
. \ mike.keighley (27 Feb 2007)

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Subject:	Why a subkey?
Group:	Gnupg-users
From:	Mike - EMAIL IGNORED
Date:	24 Feb 2007

On FC4 with gpg 1.4.1:

I created a new user account and used gpg --gen-key .
I selected RSA (sign only) since it was the only RSA
option.

It says the key cannot be used for encryption, and a
subkey must be generated. Why? Is it related to
(sign only)? If so, why was (sign and encrypt)
not offered as an option?

I did this a year or two ago, and I do not remember
needing a subkey. I still have that keyring in
under another user.

Thanks for your help.
Mike.

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