asymmetry of 'adduid' and 'deluid'

[Werner Koch]

On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 15:58, vedaal at nym.hush.com said:

> Found that to add a uid, gnupg asks for the passphrase, but to 
> delete a uid, it does not.

For “adduid” we need to a create a user-id binding signature
(self-signature) and thus need the secret key and in turn the
passphrase.

“deluid” simply removes the user-id, its self-signature, and its key
signatures.  No need for any crypto operations.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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