Re: key flags -- what do they mean?

[lutz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Lutz Donnerhacke)]

* Adam Back wrote:
>We have 3 flags (two are just variations on encryption):
>
>1) CA
>2) sign
>3) encrypt
>
>Jon said just now:
>| constraints." These are ways that the CA can describe its
>| certification.  Lutz, for example, needs these for his CA business

To clear this: CA means 'Certification', such a key is allowed to sign other
keys. 'sign' mean 'Signature creation', such a key is allowed to sign non
key material.