• hack for using specific gpg [E] subkey

    From August Abolins@2:221/1.58 to All on Thu Jan 15 20:52:00 2026

    I had a situation where one of my recipients could not decrypt
    my messages that used their ed/cv25519 subkeys by default.

    It was imperative to use the rsa [E] subkey instead.

    I noticed that OpenXP's PGP interface/option does not have a
    way to configure using a specific key for a recipient.

    So, I thought I'd try the group line feature in gpg.conf

    group name [RSAKEY_HERE]!

    My hope was that then I could define the "name" in the OpenXP
    contact list, and then it would associate PGP to the proper
    group line in the gpg.config file.

    But I noticed that OpenXP always added @servername" for every
    name - and expected that entry to be always be a proper email
    format. So, "name@servername" wasn't going to work since the
    TLD (top level domain) of the email address was missing.

    So, I modified the group line in gpg.conf to:

    group name@fullemailaddr.ess [RSAKEY_HERE]!

    Note: the ! is important after the desired key. That's gpg's
    way to force using that key without looking for the main UID.

    Voila! The hack/workaround works!













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