Re: PUBLIC GNUPG KEY REVOCATION FOR DAVID D.W. DOWNEY
On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 09:02, Chad C. Walstrom wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 05:45:23PM -0500, Dave Baker wrote:
> > You *CANNOT* revoke a key by sending an email. You can only revoke it
> > by sending a signed revocation certificate to the keyserver, and
>
> Please define. I have had a couple keys I've revoked, or so I believe.
> I imported the revocation certificates to my keychain, revoked any other
> cross-referencing signatures, and then imported the updated PUBLIC KEY
> to the keyserver. If there's a way to send a signed, revocation
> certificate to a keyserver, I would like to know how.
I think Dave meant to say, "You can't revoke a key without a revokation
certificate. Out-of-band notices of a key's invalidity don't cut it."
It sounds like you did things right.
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