Hi Stephen! On Mon, 17 Jun 2002, Stephen Stafford wrote: > 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. > Actually you can delete the uid. It will not show up on the key. If you don't have any other uid you will have to create a new one. I would delete it. It don't look like it's the only signed uid to me though. -- B. L. Jilek <bljilek@yahoo.com> PGP keys on my website --> http://crowbyte.dnsalias.com/~tcrow Linux user: 163800 | Debian Rules! | Slackware Rocks! -----------------------------------------------------------
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