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

[Tom <tom prost-net de>]

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)