Removing UIDs?

Charly Avital shavital at mac.com
Tue Sep 16 10:36:53 CEST 2008


Laurent Jumet wrote the following on 9/16/08 4:23 AM:
> Hello Charly !
[...]

>     You are right.
>     Here's the explanation from 1.4.9:
> 
> deluid:   Delete a user id.   Note  that  it  is  not  possible  to retract
> a  user  id, once it has been send to the public (i.e. to a
> keyserver).   In  that  case  you  better  use revuid.

Right, although it is not related to GnuPG 1.4.9 per se.

It's the way keyservers have been configured to work, as far as I know.

Charly



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