> only to be told by the GPG wizards that everything is fine and working as intended, it will be fixed anyway by that one guy that volunteered on the mailing li

> only to be told by the GPG wizards that everything is fine and working as intended, it will be fixed anyway by that one guy that volunteered on the mailing list to do it, they assure us. Haha, actually this problem has been fixed for some time. Now subkeys need to be cross signed by primary key so yep you can share them but only with the key owner's private key. For more details see: https://gnupg.org/faq/subkey-cross-certify.html https://gnupg.org/faq/subkey-cross-certify.html