by making obvious fun out of myself I have hopefully instilled the memory of me obviously getting it wrong in him and now he'll never make that mistake
@hello serious answer: typically you'll have a master key, which is like a meta key used for creating, signing, revoking, etc. subkeys are the grunt workers that sign emails, decrypt stuff, encrypt stuff, and are usually used for a period of a few years. they're short, and fleeting.
@RоryMcCune So it is possible to have one of my subkeys revoked. Could that also mean that I could have several subkeys? Perhaps one private key (master key) and several other public keys?
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@RоryMcCune With PGP's Web of Trust, everybody is a Certification Authority able to issue certificates to other people. With subkeys, you are also a CA issuing certificates to yourself.
