Revoking keys...

Laurent Jumet laurent.jumet at skynet.be
Thu May 1 00:54:47 CEST 2008


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Hello Ramon !

Ramon Loureiro <ramon.loureiro at upf.edu> wrote:

> I'd like to delete one of the two emails asociated to my KEYID
> Do I need to revoke the KEY?
> Does it mind that the key is "destroyed"?
> What will happen with the signed emails I have sent?

    In the --edit-key menu, you can use "deluid".
    Note that it's not possible to delete an uid once it has been sent to the 
public; you should than use "revuid".

    The key itself is not affected. It would be in same conditions as above, if
you use "delkey" and "revkey".

- -- 
Laurent Jumet
      KeyID: 0xCFAF704C
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