key revocation

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On Thu, 13 May 2004, Werner Koch wrote:

> > q2 - are there any (broken?) applications that will accept a revocation
> > key generated by a subkey as valid?
>
> I don't know.  Did you find such a bug in gpg?
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based on my tests, gpg (1.2.4) seems well behaved here (as i would
expect). i'm about to post a tutorial where this could be an issue.



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On Thu, 13 May 2004, Len Sassaman wrote:

> > 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.
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i'll make a note of that. thanks....


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