AW: Revoked keys on keyservers

Huels, Ralf SCORE Ralf.Huels@schufa.de
Wed Oct 17 16:05:05 2001



> > I revoked some keys and sent them to the key servers several months
> > ago. I checked the key servers today, and noticed that the revoked
> > keys are still there. They show that they have been revoked of =
course,
> > but my question is: how long do key servers keep revoked keys? =
Aren't
> > these keys useless?
>=20
> No - they show that key has been revoked ... which could be very =
useful
> info to someone that had a copy of the key before it was revoked.
And if, for some reason, that someone sends that old copy to the server after the key is deleted, the unrevoked copy will be added to the = server=20 again and remain there. Tsch=FC=DF, Ralf