Key switch

[Werner Koch]

On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Peter Schüller wrote:

> revuid seems to be non-existent; however revkey revokes a secondary key. In 

Soory, I always forget about this.  You have to use "revsig".

> I just tried it now btw. It seemed to work fine, but for example kmail still 
> says "message signed by peter.schuller@noreva.se". One might argue it's an 

gnupg 1.0.4h does the right thing.  I was myself in aneed for it, so
I made sure that it does not display revoked user IDs anymore and
displays the newest user ID first.

> application problem; but I'd like to just totally remove any trace of my old 
> one... so AFAIK my only choice is to generate a new key.

You can only do this for your own copy.  As soon as you import
something from a keyserver, old signatures, keys and user ID get
merged back.

  Werner

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