Certs by a revoked key

[David Shaw]

On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 11:38:34AM +0100, Jan Niehusmann wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 07:21:51AM -0500, David Shaw wrote:
> > No, because unless you are talking about a very special use where the
> > sender and receiver have rigidly controlled clocks and nobody else can
> > participate, there is no way to tell whether the "old signatures"
> > predate the revocation or not.
> 
> But that's exactly what I said: Because we don't know if a signature was
> made before or after the revocation, we should assume all signatures
> from made with a revoked key as invalid. Or at least give a big
> warning. And for certs, we should not use them in trust calculation.

I'm sorry - perhaps I misunderstood your point.  GnuPG doesn't use
signatures from revoked keys in trust calculations.

David

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