Re: Which key is used when more than one are valid?

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Which key is used when more than one are valid?
\ Jean-David Beyer (17 Jun 2007)
. \ David Shaw (17 Jun 2007)
. . \ John W. Moore III (17 Jun 2007)
. . . \ Jean-David Beyer (18 Jun 2007)
. . . . \ John Clizbe (18 Jun 2007)

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Subject:	Re: Which key is used when more than one are valid?
Group:	Gnupg-users
From:	John Clizbe
Date:	18 Jun 2007

Jean-David Beyer wrote:
> John W. Moore III wrote:
>> David Shaw wrote:
>>>> On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 02:49:21PM -0400, Jean-David Beyer wrote:
>>>>> My gnupg file that I get with edit-keys myuid
>>>>> contains, among other things:
>>>>>
>>>>> sub 2048g/48FF0850 created: 2007-02-24 expires: 2008-02-24
>>>>> sub 4096g/124E0663 created: 2007-06-17 expires: 2009-06-16
>>>>>
>>>>> How do I know which key is used when sending e-mail?
>>>>> Or is this a Thunderbird question?
>>>> GnuPG picks the subkey for you unless explicitly told which one to
>>>> use. In the above case, it would pick the second key, as it is more
>>>> recent.
>
>> However, 'Account Settings' within Thunderbird does allow You to select
>> which Key to use _if_ Enigmail is also Installed.
>
> It allows me to pick the key, but not the sub-key, unless I am missing
> something.

Subkeys may be explicitly specified by appending an exclamation mark (!) suffix;
eg, 0x124E0663! This flag tells GnuPG to use the specified primary or
secondary key and not to try and calculate which primary or secondary key to use.

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