I found the GPG tools on Mac quite good as well. But I thought I'd do things the "right" way. Use master/sub keys, linked identities, with masters kept offline

I found the GPG tools on Mac quite good as well. But I thought I'd do things the "right" way. Use master/sub keys, linked identities, with masters kept offline... The friction was _immense_, especially managing the identities, mucking with the keyring files, then deleting the master key from the online keyring, and so on. I still have my off-site db secure, but I don't look forward at all to opening it again. I don't want to remember the precise series of steps involved before everything worked correctly. How can I solve this? I just want to manage a few identities (personal, as a citizen, work account, "stuff", etc.), some of them trusting each other. Common sense makes me think I'm way over-complicating. But I was always told that any other way wouldn't really be secure. I though I would just be very pro-active with key revocation and that would eliminate most of the problem...