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There is a key for encryption, signing, authentication and certification in OpenPGP. The flags are C, E, S, A. The use cases are separate. Perhaps another flag
by aborsy 3y ago
There is a key for encryption, signing, authentication and certification in OpenPGP. The flags are C, E, S, A. The use cases are separate.
Perhaps another flag for automatic vs non automatic would help.
- jsjohnst 3y agoEncryption is not just for encrypted emails.
- soraminazuki 3y agoIn theory. In practice, published PGP encryption subkeys has only seen adoption in emails. Besides, is the criticism that people are using published keys for email? It seems people are outraged that they received encrypted data using keys that they themselves advertised. The specific medium for data transfer doesn’t seem to matter here.
- nulbyte 3y agoThere are separate flags for communications (like email) and storage (like files). https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4880#section-5.2.3.21 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4880#section-5.2.3....
- Macha 3y agoGreat, but while the encryption vs signing choice is presented by common software (albeit in a way that does not make this consequence clear), it completely does not present the encrypt for communication and encrypt for storage options.