UID revocation

[Richie Laager]

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: gnupg-users-admin@gnupg.org 
> [mailto:gnupg-users-admin@gnupg.org] On Behalf Of Lee Evans
> Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 3:03 PM
> To: gnupg-users@gnupg.org
> Subject: UID revocation

> I revoked a UID from my key, succesfully. If I now send my key to a
> keyserver, and then retrieve it back again, the copy from the
> server overwrites mine and reinstates the UID. Is this the correct
> behavious? Shouldn't the keyserver distribute my modified key
> (minus the UID) ?  


It sounds like you only deleted the user ID (with the deluid
command). You need to revoke the self-signature on the UID in
question and then synchronize that with the keyserver. The UID will
stay on your key, but it won't be considered valid, since it doesn't
have a valid self-signature. (The self-signature it has is revoked.)

I hope this helps.

Richard Laager

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