On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Tim Dunphy <bluethundr at gmail.com> wrote: > I need to generate a subkey in gpg in order to sign my emails. I > already have a main key. how do I generate the subkey I need to > encrypt emails? I have already run gpg --gen-key http://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/manual.html#AEN282 explains how to generate a subkey. You may also find this blog post useful: http://ekaia.org/blog/2009/05/10/creating-new-gpgkey/ HTH, M