On Thu, 11 Dec 2014 14:02:32 -0500 Brian Minton <br...@minton.name> wrote:
> When viewed with xpdf I
> saw "cESC" (without the quotes) at the top right corner of each slip.

These are the key capabilities, meaning:

c - Certify on primary key
E - Key is encryption capable
S - Key can sign data
C - Key can certify other keys

Or, quoting from the DETAILS document coming with GnuPG:

> 12. Field:  Key capabilities:
>                 e = encrypt
>                 s = sign
>                 c = certify
>                 a = authentication
>           A key may have any combination of them in any order.  In
>           addition to these letters, the primary key has uppercase
>           versions of the letters to denote the _usable_
>           capabilities of the entire key, and a potential letter 'D'
>           to indicate a disabled key.
> 

So this is not a bug, but a feature.

Peter.

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