GPG revocations & PGP

[Florian Weimer]

"Kai Raven" <kai.raven@gmx.de> writes:

> I have created a revocation for a test key with "gpg -o file
> - --gen-revoke key-id" but it is not possible to import this revocation
> with PGP 6.5.8.
> PGP warns me, that "The keyring file is corrupt".

With --gen-revoke, you have created a bare revocation self-signature.
I think PGP requires that the revocation signature is part of an
OpenPGP public key (see section 11.1 in RFC 2440).

I am not sure if this is a bug in PGP, GnuPG, or the OpenPGP
specification.

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