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Re: GPG Key question



On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 12:07:56AM +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote:
> Paul Cupis wrote:
> >                  Present  a  menu which enables you to do all key
> >                  related tasks:
> > 
> >                  revsig    Revoke a signature.   GnuPG  asks  for
> >                            every signature which has been done by
> >                            one of  the  secret  keys,  whether  a
> >                            revocation  certificate should be gen­
> >                            erated.
> > 
> > So it looks like you can generate a revokation certificate for a particular 
> > signature.
>   ^^^^^^^^^
> 
> Yes, you can revoke a _signature_. But that was not the question. He
> wanted to remove one of his _uid_'s. And that is *not* possible.
 
Revoking your own signature on one of your own uids should be a fairly
clear indication that you don't want people to use it... You shouldn't
be using uids that aren't signed by the key they're on.

J.

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