Re: [Enigmail] Using a specific subkey in Enigmail

Eli Schwartz <[email protected]> Fri, 3 Jan 2020 14:08:45 -0500

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.mozilla.enigmail.general
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On 1/3/20 1:24 PM, Patrick Brunschwig wrote:
> john doe wrote on 03.01.2020 19:18:
>> On 1/3/2020 7:05 PM, Patrick Brunschwig wrote:
>>> john doe wrote on 03.01.2020 18:43:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I have multiple subkeys on my GPG key and I'm not finding a way to let
>>>> enigmail  use a specific subkey.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> What's the best way to use enigmail with subkey?
>>>
>>> Enigmail does not support that.
>>>
>>
>> Okay, so to use enigmail, only one subkey for the sign capability and
>> one subkey for the encrypt capability is allowed.
> 
> No, that's not what I said. You can't /select/ a /specific/ subkey with
> Enigmail. Everything else is fully supported. I.e. gpg chooses an
> appropriate subkey for whatever operation is performed.

IIRC I've used the Preferences -> Advanced -> Additional parameters for
GnuPG setting to specify a --local-user for this.

(Rationale: for a key-signing event I wanted to send someone a proof
that I owned the master key, not just the subkey.)

-- 
Eli Schwartz
Arch Linux Bug Wrangler and Trusted User

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