Why are revocations hidden?

[Werner Koch]

On Sun, 16 Sep 2001 19:11:52 +0200, Åsmund Skjæveland said:

> SUMMARY:
> The following message asks why revoked userids are not shown as such when a
> keyfile is parsed by gnupg, and tries to point out dangers.

This is a feature.  There is no point in displaying non-functional user
IDs; after all GnuPG won't use them at all.  For example I revoked my
openit.de user ID because I am not anymore afiliated with them - so
why show it at all.

OTOH, it is often useful to show all user IDs if you want to take a
close look at the key - therefore the user IDs are shown in the --edit
menu.

 Werner

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