Trust, UIDs, signing & revoking

[David Shaw]

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On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 02:02:53PM -0800, Len Sassaman wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, David Shaw wrote:
>=20
> > They do not count.  Trust is given in a key+UID, so if the UID is
> > revoked, any trust in that key+UID is effectively revoked as well.
>=20
> Except for OpenPGP implementations that don't understand how revoked UIDs
> work.

Sure, but GnuPG does know how to do revoked UIDs.  Does PGP?  I don't
have a copy handy to check.

David

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