key revocation

[David Shaw]

On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 01:45:46AM -0700, Len Sassaman wrote:
> On Thu, 13 May 2004, Atom 'Smasher' wrote:
> 
> > according to my reading of rfc 2440, a key revocation is only valid if
> > either:
> > 	a) it was generated by the PRIMARY key, or
> > 	b) it was generated by a key DESIGNATED by the PRIMARY key
> >
> > q1 - is that correct?
> >
> > q2 - are there any (broken?) applications that will accept a revocation
> > key generated by a subkey as valid?
> 
> PGP versions 5.x through 6.5.7 will accept a revocation generated by *any*
> key as valid.

Most keyservers do the same.  Of course, this is a metadata/display
issue only, and an illegal revocation won't be acted upon by GnuPG.

David