deluid // why no passphrase required ?

[David Srbecky]

vedaal at hush.com wrote:
> when adding a new userid, gnupg understandably requires a 
> passphrase,
> 
> why doesn't gnupg require a passphrase when deleting a uid ?
> 
> (granted, if someone found my secring.gpg, this would be my least 
> worry ;-)
> 
> but, in principle,
> shouldn't all key editing functions require a passphrase ?
> 
> tia,
> 
> vedaal

I can not agree more. I accidentally deleted my secret, that would not 
happen if it asked me to confirm it by passphrase.

David
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