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.
>
> Rene
>
Sure it is. It has *exactly* the effect of removing the UID. The UID
remains, but is clearly marked as being revoked. This should tell everyone
that the UID is no longer to be associated with the key. This is The
Correct Way to remove stale UIDs AFAIK.
Stephen
--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-request@lists.debian.org
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org
Reply to: