On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 10:53:19PM -0400, B. L. Jilek wrote: > 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. Deleting anything is worthless once it's touched the global keyring. There is no way to issue a 'delete' command to keyrings, and even if there were, there's no way for keyrings to propogate that command to local GPG rings. The only way to successfully take a GPG uid out of circulation is by appending /more/ information to it that renders it invalid: a revocation certificate. Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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