editing User ID

Ismael Valladolid Torres ivalladt at gmail.com
Tue Apr 22 16:43:39 CEST 2008


On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 6:13 PM, David Shaw <dshaw at jabberwocky.com> wrote:
>  The way to do what you want is to add a new user ID, with the correct
>  information (gpg --edit-key then "adduid"), then remove the old
>  incorrect UID.  There are two ways to remove that:

Isn't it more logical to revoke the old ID instead of removing it?
There could be a lot of public keyrings out there with the incorrect
ID and it won't get revoked by simply deleting it from the original
key.

Sorry if I misunderstood the point...



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